Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Quotes

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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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  Wise, Women, Passion

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• Whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Venus In Furs

  Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, Emil Marriot (1989). “Venus in Furs: A Novel ; Letters of Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch and Emilie Mataja”

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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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  Children, Men, Appreciate

  Gilles Deleuze, Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch (1971). “Masochism”, Zone Books (NY)

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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

  Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, Emil Marriot (1989). “Venus in Furs: A Novel ; Letters of Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch and Emilie Mataja”

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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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  Want, Pleasure, Drains

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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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  Sweet, Thinking, Suffering

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.75, Cosimo Classics

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• You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

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  Glowing, Color, Arrogance

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.57, Cosimo Classics

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• You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood.

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  Blood, Imagination, Venus In Furs

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.54, Cosimo Classics

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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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  Thinking, Safe, Danger

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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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  Feet, Necks, Feels

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• Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

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  Desire, Pleasure, Glances

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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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  Mean, Hands, Slave

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.60, Cosimo Classics

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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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  Beautiful, Real, Apples

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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, Isis, Abuse

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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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• 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, Religious, Men

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.29, Cosimo Classics

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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 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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  Men, Imagination, Way

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.49, Cosimo Classics

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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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  Successful, Feelings, Rivals

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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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• 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, Long, Giving

  Gilles Deleuze, Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch (1971). “Masochism”, Zone Books (NY)

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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, Husband, Children

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.31, Cosimo Classics

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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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  Cat, Exercise, Men

  Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, Emil Marriot (1989). “Venus in Furs: A Novel ; Letters of Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch and Emilie Mataja”

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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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  Fighting, Blood, People

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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, Tired, Kissing

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