“ 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
“ 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
