“I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”
Source: Sourcery
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Source: Time Cat (1963), Chapter 8 “Master of Imperial Cats” (p. 79)

Space (1912)
Context: Remember his mind and no other part of him lived in his new world. He said it gave him an odd sense of detachment to sit in a room among people, and to know that nothing there but himself had any relation at all to the infinite strange world of Space that flowed around them. He would listen, he said, to a great man talking, with one eye on the cat on the rug, thinking to himself how much more the cat knew than the man.
Source: Time Cat (1963), Chapter 3 “Neter-Khet” (p. 20)

So they put him in jail. But I want to remind you: that you can lock up a mouse or a man but you can't lock up an idea!
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