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The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city. – Italo Calvino

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The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him. – Italo Calvino

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The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary. – Italo Calvino

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If only cats grew into kittens. – R. Stern

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A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. – Arab Proverb

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People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote. – Charlotte Gray

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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk
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