Venus In Furs Quotes

• You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Children, Men, Appreciate

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

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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.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Men, Treasure, Want

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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.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Wise, Women, Passion

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• You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Blood, Imagination, My Imagination

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

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• Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Mean, Hands, Slave

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

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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.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Want, Pleasure, Drains

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• Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman's nature conceals more dangers than you think.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Thinking, Safe, Danger

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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.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Beautiful, Real, Apples

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

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Glowing, Color, Arrogance

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

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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?

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Men, Long, Giving

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

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

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Wise, Wisdom, Deserve

  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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• 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.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Our Love, Uniforms, Calm

  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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• 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

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Beautiful, Tired, Kissing

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

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Hair, Mad, Soul

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• Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Difficult Times, Pleasure, Worthwhile

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• Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Desire, Pleasure, Glances

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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.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Two, Uniting, Lasts

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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.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Mind, Watches, Fur

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

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• Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman?

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Art, Lovely, Littles

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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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• Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Forgiving, Merit, Virtue

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• Above all else I am a dilettante in life.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Dilettantes

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.19, Cosimo Classics

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• Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Men, Lasts, Fiber

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

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• My heart is a void, dead, and this makes me sad.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Heart, Void, My Heart

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.121, Cosimo Classics

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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.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Beautiful, Men, Ugly

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