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"Bc they think they can conceive the end of their lives, humans believe they know more of death than do other animals. But what human beings know as their oncoming death is an image generated in their minds by their awareness of passing time. Knowing only their lives as they live them, cats are mortal immortals that think of death only when it is nearly upon them. It is not hard to see how they came tobe worshipped"

"Cat-hatred is very often the self-hatred of misery-sodden human beings redirected against creatures they know are not unhappy. Whereas cats live by following their nature, humans live by suppressing theirs. That, paradoxically, is their nature."