“ I really believe," said Wanda thoughtfully,"that your madness is nothing but a demonic, unsatisfied sensuality. Our unnatural way of life must generate such illnesses. Were you less virtuous, you woul… Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
“ It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
“ Work on." Work as if every time you started with and every time you finish. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
“ 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? Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
“ 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. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
“ You view love and especially women...as something hostile, something against which you defend yourself, although in vain, something whose power over you, however, you feel as a sweet torment, a prickl… Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
“ 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… Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
“ 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. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
“ The moral of the tale is this: whoever allows himself to be whipped,deserves to be whipped. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
“ 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
“ You look at love, and especially woman, as something hostile, something against which you put up a defense, even if unsuccessfully. You feel that their power over you gives you a sensation of pleasura… Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
“ That love, which is the highest joy, which is divine simplicity itself, is not for you moderns, you children of reflection. It works only evil in you. As soon as you wish to be natural, you becomecomm… Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
“ It is merely the egoism of men, 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… Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
“ So,” Wanda cried, “a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery? Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
“ 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
