Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.
Leopold von Sacher-MasochVenus in Furs has caught his soul in the red snares of hair. He will paint her, and go mad.
Leopold von Sacher-MasochPleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life.
Leopold von Sacher-MasochI 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-MasochLove knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.
Leopold von Sacher-MasochLove 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?
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch