Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one.
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Quoted by Jorge Luis Borges in his essay "A History of Eternity"Arthur Schopenhauer
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