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Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Biography

Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch (27 January 1836 – 9 March 1895) was an Austrian nobleman, writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term masochism is derived from his name.

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Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life.

Alone, Difficult Times, Life, Pleasure, Worthwhile

The struggle of the spirit against the senses is the gospel of modern man. I do not wish to have any part in it.

Against, Man, Men, Senses, Struggle, Wish

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

Everything, Forgiving, Guided, Merit, Tolerates, Virtue

Watch out, I have a large, very large fur, with which I could cover you up entirely, and I have a mind to catch you in it as in a net.

Mind, Watches, Fur, Watch, Cover, Large

Now her eyes meet mine like green lightning-they are green, these eyes of hers, whose power is so indescribable-green, but as are precious stones, or deep unfathomable mountain lakes.

Deep, Eye, Lakes, Precious, Precious Stones, Stones

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 when he lay dying in his wheel chair, he often said jokingly to me: 'Well, have you already picked out a lover?' I blushed with shame. 'Don't deceive me,' he added on one occasion, 'that would seem ugly to me, but pick out an attractive lover, or preferably several. You are a splendid woman, but still half a child, and you need toys.

Attractive, Children, Husband, Love, Occasion, Splendid

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 love simply because I used to love him? No, I forgo nothing, I love any man who appeals to me and I make any man who loves me happy. Is that ugly? No, it is at least far more beautiful than my cruelly delighting in the tortures incited by my charms and my virtuously turning my back on the poor man who pines away for me. I am young, rich, and beautiful, and just as I am, I live cheerfully for pleasure and enjoyment.

Beautiful, Exist, Men, Tortures, Ugly, Virtuously

Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman?

Art, Arts, Become, Littles, Lovely

There is no describing the feeling of being mistreated by a successful rival in front of the woman you worship.

Describing, Feelings, Front, Mistreated, Rivals, Successful

The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask.

Comic, Laughing, Running, Tears

Despite all the progress of civilization, women have remained exactly as they emerged from the hand of Nature.

Civilization, Exactly, Hands, Nature, Progress, Remained

Cats exercise. . . a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable, scintillating electric batteries have been the favorite animal of a Mohammed, Cardinal Richlieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland.

Cat, Developed, Exercise, Highly, Magic, Men

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, provided only if it is honest. Your ideal is a daring courtesan of genius. Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.

Corrupt, Faster, Ideal, Imagination, Men, Vices

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

Desire, Followed, Glance, Glances, Pleasure

A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone.

Apple, Apples, Beautiful, Live, Real, Woman

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?

Demand, Enjoyment, Give, Giving, Long, Men

Venus in Furs has caught his soul in the red snares of hair. He will paint her, and go mad.

Hair, Mad, Paint, Red, Soul

Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman's nature conceals more dangers than you think.

Conceals, Danger, Dangers, Love, Safe, Thinking

You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

Arrogance, Color, Colors, Glowing, Pleasure

The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of his neck.

Feels, Feet, Know, Neck, Necks, Person

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