"If I can't enjoy the full and total……" — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
"If I can't enjoy the full and total happiness of love, then I want to drain its torments, its tortures to the dregs; then I want the woman I love to mistreat me, betray me, and the more cruelly the better. That too is a pleasure."
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Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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35 Quotes by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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You are cold, while you yourself fan flames.
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You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.
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The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask.
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Every man--I know this--turns weak, pliant, ridiculous as soon as he's in love.
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The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of…
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I saw sensuality as sacred, indeed the only sacredness, I saw woman and her beauty as divine since her calling…
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Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman's nature conceals more dangers than you think.
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Despite all the progress of civilization, women have remained exactly as they emerged from the hand of Nature.
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A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus…
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Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal…
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You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard…
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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his…
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We would betray our values and play into our enemies' hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone…
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he…
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I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.
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Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
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I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you…
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To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
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Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they…
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By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind.
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