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He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Most of all, I blamed the Icelander for the society and emotional remoteness and irrelevance of birds, that feathered people who seemed to reign…

— Kirk Marshall

“In this world unburdened by concepts, even ferocity was pure: the fish wriggling beneath the wave would soon be only a choice morsel, bleeding…

— Anonymous

“As to acknowledging that he was about to obtain a triumph with the ideas of another man, he never thought of such a thing.…

— Émile Gaboriau

“He knew there was no one to restrain him now, and he knew that he was beaten. But an animal will always fight for…

— Georgi Vladimov

“...he had to comfort himself with the firm conviction that most of what he objected to in Mohawk and the world at large was…

— Richard Russo

“It was the first and only fight of his childhood, but it had taught him a valuable lesson about human nature, how people were…

— D.J. Molles

“his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out of self-consciousness into passionate delight; it went on fluttering in…

— George Eliot

“Unlike the majority of people, he did not hate or fear the wilderness; as harsh as the empty lands were, they possessed a grace…

— Christopher Paolini

“Besides, there was that foolish feeling of his that reality was not solid, and that facts were only plastic toys; or, rather, that they…

— Hope Mirrlees

“And like any dog, like any savage, I lay there enjoying myself, harming no man, selling nothing, competing not at all, thinking no evil,…

— John Stewart Collis

“Know, Nature’s children all divide her care; The fur that warms a monarch, warmed a bear. While man exclaims, “See all things for my…

— Alexander Pope