"Love knows no virtue, no profit; it loves……" — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
"Love 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?"
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Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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35 Quotes by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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