Quotes by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

About Leopold von Sacher-Masoch:

Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch is derived from his name.
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The moral of the tale is this: whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped.

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

La mujer que no hace del hombre su súbdito, su esclavo, ¿qué digo?, su juguete, y que no le traiciona riendo, es una loca.

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Cuanto más fácilmente se entrega la mujer, más frío e imperioso es el hombre. Pero cuanto más cruel e infiel le es, cuanto más juega de una manera criminal, cuanta menos piedad le demuestra, más excita sus deseos, más la ama y la desea.

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¿Encontraré una mujer que, fiel y benévola, comparta mi suerte brillante y generosa, cuando ahora quien la comparte sólo lo hace de una manera blanda o tímida? Entonces prefiero caer entre las manos de una mujer sin virtud, inconstante y despiad...

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¿Te roba algo de tu alegría que yo haya pertenecido antes a otro y que otro me posea después de ti? ¿Será menor tu placer porque otro haya sido feliz como tú?

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But why talk in superlatives, as if something that is beautiful could be surpassed?

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So,” Wanda cried, “a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery?

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She had wrapped her marble-like body in a huge fur, and rolled herself up trembling like a cat.

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You look at love, and especially woman, as something hostile, something against which you put up a defense, even if unsuccessfully. You feel that their power over you gives you a sensation of pleasurable torture, of pungent cruelty. This is a genuine...

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That love, which is the highest joy, which is divine simplicity itself, is not for you moderns, you children of reflection. It works only evil in you. As soon as you wish to be natural, you becomecommon. To you nature seems something hostile; you hav...

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My husband's personality was filled with serenity and sunlight. Not even the incurable illness which fell upon him soon after our marriage could long cloud his brow. On the very night of his death he took me in his arms, and during the many months wh...

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All about us the earth steamed; mists rose up toward heaven like clouds of incense; a shattered rainbow still hovered in the air.

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I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile.

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Woman's power lies in man's passion, and she knows how to use it, if man doesn't understand himself. He has only one choice: to be the tyrant over or the slave of woman.

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You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood...

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

You of the North in general take love too soberly and seriously. You talk of duties where there should be only a question of pleasure.

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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 cruel then, woman or man?

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The real comic muse is the one underwhose laughing mask tears roll down.

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Work on. " Work as if every time you started with and every time you finish.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameLeopold von Sacher-Masoch
  • DescriptionAustrian author
  • BornJanuary 27, 1836
  • DiedMarch 9, 1895
  • CountryAustria; Poland
  • ProfessionJournalist; Writer