Quote by Italo Calvino
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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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Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words. – 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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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk
And tender meat, make it a couch of silk,
But let it see a mouse along the wall
And it abandones milk and meat and all. – Chaucer

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Women, poets, and especially artists, like cats; delicate natures only can realize their sensitive systems. – Helen M. Winslow

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Some people say man is the most dangerous animal on the planet. Obviously those people have never met an angry cat. – Lillian Johnson

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You own a dog but you feed a cat. – Jenny de Vries

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