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She had wrapped her marble-like body in a huge fur, and rolled herself up trembling like a cat.


Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

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LARS VON TRIER Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself...
LARS VON TRIER My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it's a man in the lead, they hav...
LARS VON TRIER If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
LARS VON TRIER If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misus...
LARS VON TRIER I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea...
LARS VON TRIER Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
LARS VON TRIER That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, ...
LARS VON TRIER Political correctness kills discussion.
LARS VON TRIER I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.
KARL VON FRISCH I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
KARL VON FRISCH I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
KARL VON FRISCH After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vie...
KARL VON FRISCH For both reasons, owing to the thermal motion and to the working together of various wavelengths, fa...
MAX VON LAUE While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumptio...
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT Love therefore
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet,...
MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind ...
DITA VON TEESE In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stag...
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.
ROGER VON OECH Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
WERNER VON BRAUN Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
ROGER VON OECH The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populat...
WERNER VON BRAUN To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Dare to be wrong and to dream.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957 There are three less...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The sam...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Anyone taken as an individual, is tolerably sensible and reasonable- as a member of a crowd, he at o...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and c...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law ...
FRIEDRICH VON BERNHARDI