Quotes by Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch - Page 1

Man desires, woman is desired.
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Men
Desire
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Above all else I am a dilettante in life.
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Dilettantes
Venus In Furs
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You are cold, while you yourself fan flames.
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Cold
Fans
Flames
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My heart is a void, dead, and this makes me sad.
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Heart
My Heart
Void
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Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire
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Desire
Glances
Pleasure
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You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood.
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Imagination
Blood
Venus In Furs
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Whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped.
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Wisdom
Wise
Venus In Furs
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You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.
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Arrogance
Color
Glowing
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Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.
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Men
Fiber
Lasts
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The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask.
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Running
Laughing
Tears
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Every man--I know this--turns weak, pliant, ridiculous as soon as he's in love.
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Men
Ridiculous
Weak
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Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman.
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Hands
Mean
Slave
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Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman?
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Art
Littles
Lovely
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Venus in Furs has caught his soul in the red snares of hair. He will paint her, and go mad.
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Hair
Mad
Soul
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A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly.
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Faces
Lectures
Slap In The Face
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So,” Wanda cried, “a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery?
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Batteries
Cat
Fur
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Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman's nature conceals more dangers than you think.
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Danger
Safe
Thinking
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Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life.
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Difficult Times
Pleasure
Worthwhile
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You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.
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Men
Appreciate
Children
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A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone.
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Apples
Beautiful
Real
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Despite all the progress of civilization, women have remained exactly as they emerged from the hand of Nature.
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Civilization
Hands
Progress
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There is no describing the feeling of being mistreated by a successful rival in front of the woman you worship.
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Feelings
Rivals
Successful
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The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of his neck.
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Feels
Feet
Necks
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The struggle of the spirit against the senses is the gospel of modern man. I do not wish to have any part in it.
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Men
Struggle
Wish
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Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.
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Forgiving
Merit
Virtue
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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.
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Fur
Mind
Watches
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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.
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Giving
Instinct
Pleasure
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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.
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Lasts
Two
Uniting
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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?
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Men
Giving
Long
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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.
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Eye
Lakes
Precious Stones
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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.
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Calm
Our Love
Uniforms
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If I can't enjoy the full and total happiness of love, then I want to drain its torments, its tortures to the dregs; then I want the woman I love to mistreat me, betray me, and the more cruelly the better. That too is a pleasure.
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Drains
Pleasure
Want
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People who want to live like Olympian gods must have slaves whom they throw into their fishponds and gladiators who fight during their masters sumptuous banquets-and the pleasure-seekers never care if some blood splatters on them.
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Blood
Fighting
People
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It is merely the egoism of the man, who wants to bury a woman like a treasure. All attempts at using vows, contracts, and holy ceremonies have failed to bring permanence into the most changeable aspect of changeable human existence, namely love.
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Men
Treasure
Want
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Woman, as Nature has created her and as she is currently reared by man, is his enemy and can only be his slave or his despot, but never his companion. She will be able to become his companion only when she has the same rights as he, when she is his equal in education and work.
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Men
Enemy
Rights
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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.
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Men
Cat
Exercise
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Until then I had lived as I had painted and versified - that is, I never got far beyond priming canvas, beyond penning an outline, a first act, a first stanza. There are simply people who start all sorts of things and yet never finish any of them. And that was the kind of person I was.
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Firsts
Kind
People
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You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an aureole on vice, provided only if it is honest. Your ideal is a daring courtesan of genius. Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.
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Imagination
Men
Way
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Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.
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Women
Wise
Passion
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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.
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Marriage
Men
Religious
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Love knows no virtue, no profit; it loves and forgives and suffers everything, because it must. It is not our judgment that leads us; it is neither the advantages nor the faults which we discover, that make us abandon ourselves, or that repel us. It is a sweet, soft, enigmatic power that drives us on. We cease to think, to feel, to will; we let ourselves be carried away by it, and ask not whither?
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Suffering
Sweet
Thinking
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I imagine that the goddess of Love has come down from Olympus to visit a mortal. So as not to die of cold in this modern world of ours, she wraps her sublime body in great heavy furs and warms her feet on the prostrate body of her lover. I imagine the favorite of this beautiful despot, who is whipped when his mistress grows tired of kissing him, and whose love only grows more intense the more he is trampled underfoot. I shall call the picture "Venus in Furs
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Beautiful
Kissing
Tired
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I saw sensuality as sacred, indeed the only sacredness, I saw woman and her beauty as divine since her calling is the most important task of existence: the propagation of the species. I saw woman as the personification of nature, as Isis, and man as her priest, her slave; and I pictured her treating him as cruelly as Nature, who, when she no longer needs something that has served her, tosses it away, while her abuses, indeed her killing it, are its lascivious bliss.
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Men
Abuse
Isis
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Once I no longer exist as I am, out of what consideration then should I forgo anything? Should I belong to a man I don't love simply because I used to love him? No, I forgo nothing, I love any man who appeals to me and I make any man who loves me happy. Is that ugly? No, it is at least far more beautiful than my cruelly delighting in the tortures incited by my charms and my virtuously turning my back on the poor man who pines away for me. I am young, rich, and beautiful, and just as I am, I live cheerfully for pleasure and enjoyment.
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Men
Beautiful
Ugly
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My husband's personality was filled with serenity and sunlight. Not even the incurable illness which fell upon him soon after our marriage could long cloud his brow. On the very night of his death he took me in his arms, and during the many months when he lay dying in his wheel chair, he often said jokingly to me: 'Well, have you already picked out a lover?' I blushed with shame. 'Don't deceive me,' he added on one occasion, 'that would seem ugly to me, but pick out an attractive lover, or preferably several. You are a splendid woman, but still half a child, and you need toys.
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Love
Children
Husband
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