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“She tips back her head and howls: Moooooown! Oh wonderful moooooowwwwwyyyn!”
“Whatever life brings, we'll share," she says, and "I can do no more than the best I can.”
“May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying, yes, yes, to whatever we are.”
“The world looks so beautiful! She wonders how one can not do for it anything that needs to be done, or at least all one can do.”
“Maybe it's animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of canines, the grace of snakes, the mildness of anteaters. Perhaps being human needs some diluti...”
“Ah, but is it not the mind that is the real grace of Homo sapiens? All the things to think about! All the things to read and appreciate! All the arts! All the things of the spirit!”
“I shall love my kind of love anyway, doggedly, for I must certainly do the best I can with my own nature and if my nature is to love too well or from afar or to be grateful for crumbs...well, so be...”