You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch More Quotes by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch More Quotes From Leopold von Sacher-Masoch 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 ugly beautiful men 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 giving men long 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. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch isis abuse men The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch tears running laughing 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. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch rights men enemy You are cold, while you yourself fan flames. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch cold flames fans Every man--I know this--turns weak, pliant, ridiculous as soon as he's in love. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch ridiculous weak men Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman? Leopold von Sacher-Masoch lovely littles art The struggle of the spirit against the senses is the gospel of modern man. I do not wish to have any part in it. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch struggle wish men 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 calm uniforms Above all else I am a dilettante in life. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch venus-in-furs dilettantes So,” Wanda cried, “a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery? Leopold von Sacher-Masoch fur batteries cat Man desires, woman is desired. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch desire men 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. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch instinct pleasure giving 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 uniting lasts two My heart is a void, dead, and this makes me sad. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch void my-heart heart 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 fur mind watches Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch fiber lasts men 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 tired kissing beautiful 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. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch cat exercise men
