“We are faithful as long as we love, but you demand faithfulness of a woman without love, and the giving of herself without enjoyment. Who is cruel there--woman or man?” — Ritter von Leopold Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
“Yet I am not writing with ordinary ink, but with red blood that drips from my heart. All its wounds long scarred over have opened and it throbs and hurts, and now and then a tear falls on the paper.” — Ritter von Leopold Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
“We are faithful as long as we love, but you demand faithfulness of a woman without love, and the giving of herself without enjoyment.… — Ritter von Leopold Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
“Shall I belong to one man whom I don't love, merely because I have once loved him? No, I do not renounce; I love… — Ritter von Leopold Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
“I take a cruel joy in seeing you tremble and writhe beneath my whip, and in hearing your groans and wails; I want to… — Ritter von Leopold Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
“To you nature seems something hostile; you have made devils out of the smiling gods of Greece, and out of me a demon.” — Ritter von Leopold Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
“Yet I am not writing with ordinary ink, but with red blood that drips from my heart. All its wounds long scarred over have… — Ritter von Leopold Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
