Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch Quotes
You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.
Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman's nature conceals more dangers than you think.
Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman.
A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone.
The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of his neck.
Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.
Now her eyes meet mine like green lightning-they are green, these eyes of hers, whose power is so indescribable-green, but as are precious stones, or deep unfathomable mountain lakes.
There is no describing the feeling of being mistreated by a successful rival in front of the woman you worship.
Alas, woman is faithful as long as she loves, but you demand that she be faithful without love and give herself without enjoyment. Who is cruel then, woman or man?
The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask.
Venus in Furs has caught his soul in the red snares of hair. He will paint her, and go mad.
I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile.
Watch out, I have a large, very large fur, with which I could cover you up entirely, and I have a mind to catch you in it as in a net.
So,” Wanda cried, “a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery?
Every man--I know this--turns weak, pliant, ridiculous as soon as he's in love.
Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman?
Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.
A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly.
You cannot deny that love lasts for only a brief moment, uniting two beings as a single being that is capable of only one thought, one sensation, one will.
Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life.
Every woman has the instinct, the propensity to profit from her charms, and there's a lot to be said for giving oneself without love, without pleasure.
The struggle of the spirit against the senses is the gospel of modern man. I do not wish to have any part in it.
Despite all the progress of civilization, women have remained exactly as they emerged from the hand of Nature.
Work on." Work as if every time you started with and every time you finish.
So, ” Wanda cried, “a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery?
It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure.
We are faithful as long as we love, but youdemand faithfulness of a woman without love, and the giving ofherself without enjoyment. Who is cruel there--woman or man?
Yet I am not writing with ordinary ink, but with red blood that dripsfrom my heart. All its wounds long scarred over have opened and itthrobs and hurts, and now and then a tear falls on the paper.
The moral of the tale is this: whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped.
You of the North in general take love too soberly and seriously. You talk of duties where there should be only a question of pleasure.
The real comic muse is the one underwhose laughing mask tears roll down.