“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 book Venus in FursSource: Venus in Furs
“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 book Venus in FursSource: Venus in Furs
“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 book Venus in FursSource: Venus in Furs