Champfleury famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A little drowsing cat is an image of perfect beatitude.
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There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten.
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A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long, comedy is played by an incomparable actor.
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If you would know what a cat is thinking about, you must hold its paw in your hand for a long time...
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The love of dress is very marked in this attractive animal; he is proud of the lustre of his coat, and cannot endure that a hair of it shall lie the wrong way. When the cat has eaten, he passes his tongue several times over both sides of his jaws, and his whiskers, in order to clean them thoroughly; he keeps his coat clean with a prickly tongue which fulfills the office of the curry-comb.
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[A kitten] gets himself into every kind of trouble...
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He is proud of the lustre of his coat, and cannot endure that a hair of it shall lie the wrong way.
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The love of dress is very marked in this attractive animal.
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Refined and delicate natures understand the cat. Women, poets, and artists hold it in great esteem, for they recognize the exquisite delicacy of its nervous system; indeed, only coarse natures fail to discern the natural distinction of the cat.
-- Champfleury
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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For as from the same piece of clay a potter may fashion either a pot or a tile, so the Devil may shape a witch into a wolf or a cat or even a goat, without subtracting from her and without adding to her at all. For this occurs just as clay is first molded into one, then shaped into another form, for the Devil is a potter and his witches are but clay.
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I love the voice - it’s the most perfect instrument ever heard. It’s God given.
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You are magnificent beyond measure, perfect in your imperfections, and wonderfully made.
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We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
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Islam is perfect, there is nothing to be added or changed.
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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.
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I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.
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I rarely drink from the bottle, but I'll smoke a little weed,
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