“What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?'
'Cats don't have names,' it said.
'No?' said Coraline.
'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.”
― Coraline
'Cats don't have names,' it said.
'No?' said Coraline.
'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.”
― Coraline
“I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.”
― The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
― The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.”
― Shiloh and Other Stories
― Shiloh and Other Stories
“What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?”
― Thoreau Journal 9
― Thoreau Journal 9
“A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?”
― Pudd'nhead Wilson
― Pudd'nhead Wilson
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