Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable, scintillating electric batteries have been the favorite animal of a Mohammed, Cardinal Richlieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland.

So,” Wanda cried, “a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery?

Venus in Furs has caught his soul in the red snares of hair. He will paint her, and go mad.

The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of his neck.

Man desires, woman is desired.

The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask.

A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone.