Famous quotes containing the words von and/or disease:
“The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“And this disease that was Swann’s love had so multiplied, it was so intimately tied to all of Swann’s habits, to all his acts, to his thoughts, to his health, to his sleep, to his life, even to what he desired for his afterlife, his love was so much a part of him that it could not be extracted from him without destroying him entirely: as is said in surgery, his love was inoperable.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)