"Why should the calculus of the destinies not have its thorny parts?"




But what attitude do cats adopt? Cats are just that: cats. And their world is utterly, through and through, a cat’s world. You think they look at us? Has anyone ever truly known whether or not they deign to register for one instant on the sunken surface of their retina our trifling forms? As they stare at us they might merely be eliminating us magically from their gaze, eternally replete.

Rainer Maria Rilke, from the preface to Mitsou. Translated by Richard Miller.
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