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Man Quotes by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
- The struggle of the spirit against the senses is the gospel of modern man. I do not wish to have any part in it.
- Every man--I know this--turns weak, pliant, ridiculous as soon as he's in love.
- 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…
- Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.
- Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried…
- You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an aureole on vice,…
- 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…
- Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given…
- 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…
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