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“there is said to have been prisoners who have tamed spiders, rats, and flies and begun to love them. i think they acted in accordance with their situation. the barriers between animal and human come down very easily. we belong to a single great family and if we are lonely and unhappy we gladly accept the friendship of our distant relations. they suffer as we do and have needs as we do.”

“from the start (the cat) had been destined as a victim for fixes, owls and martens. was i to punish the beautiful living fox for that? (the cat) had suffered an injustice… was i to pass it onto the fox? the only creature in the forest that can do right or wrong is me. and i alone can show mercy. sometimes i wish that burden of decision making didn’t fall on me, but only death will free me from it.”

“it’s only when knowledge about something slowly spreads to the whole body that you truly know. I know that too I, like every living thing, will have to die someday, but my hands, my feet, and my guts still doesn’t know it, which is why death seems so unreal.”