Quote #38

A humbly poetic, gently clownlike, supremely innocent, and illimitably affectionate creature (slightly resembling a child's drawing of a cat, but gifted with the secret grace and obvious clumsiness of a penguin on terra firma) who is never so happy as when egoist-mouse, thwarting altruist-dog, hits her in the head with a brick. Dog hates mouse and worships 'cat', mouse despises 'cat' and hates dog, 'cat' hates no one and loves mouse.

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  1. What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way.
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  3. nothing except the impossible shall occur
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  6. out of the mountain of his soul comes a keen pure silence
  7. yes is a pleasant country: love is a deeper season than reason
  8. blossoming are people: all the earth has turned to sky :and i am you are i am we

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