Those pleasures so lightly called physical.
Those pleasures so lightly called physical.
Whether you are dealing with an animal or a child, to convince is to weaken.
A bestial and violent man will go so far as to kill because he is under the influence of drink, exasperated, or driven by rage and alcohol. He is paltry. He does not know the pleasure of killing, the charity of bestowing death like a caress, of linking it with the play of the noble wild beasts every cat, every tiger, embraces its prey and licks it even while it destroys it.
By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
Be happy. It is a way of being wise.
I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph.... Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us.
My cat does not talk as respectfully to me as I do to her.
The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories