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“All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.”
― The Lazarus Project
― The Lazarus Project

“Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.”
― Selected Letters, 1940-1956
― Selected Letters, 1940-1956

“She hops expectantly into the sink. I turn on the tap for her; she laps without a glance in my direction, like a duchess so used to being ministered to that she no longer notices the servants and sees only a world where objects dumbly bend to her wishes, doors opening, faucets discharging cool water, delicious things appearing in her dish.”
― Another Insane Devotion: On The Love of Cats and Persons
― Another Insane Devotion: On The Love of Cats and Persons

“Suddenness," he says. " You do not prepare, you do not explain, you do not apologize. Suddenly, you go. And with you, you take all contemplation, all consideration of your own departure. All the suffering that would have come from knowing comes after you are gone, and you are not a part of it.”
― The Tiger's Wife
― The Tiger's Wife