Leopold von Sacher-Masoch quotes

You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood... (Leopold von Sacher-Masoch)

The moral of the tale is this: whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped.

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly.

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire.

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

You are cold, while you yourself fan flames.

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

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?

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason...

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

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.

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

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

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Who lets itself whip, earned to be whipped.

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

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Occupation: Writer
Born: January 27, 1836
Died: March 9, 1895
Quotes count: 10

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