“Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire”
Source: Venus in Furs
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Leopold von Sacher-Masoch10
Austrian author 1836–1895Related quotes
“Pleasure has desire in it. Desire is pain. There is no satisfaction. So pleasure is pain.”
Baba Hari Dass (1923–2018) master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritual tradition
Source: The Yellow Book, 1974, p.65
“My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.”
Roman Polanski (1933) Polish-French film director, producer, writer, actor, and rapist
As quoted in The Everything Cryptograms Book (2005) by Nikki Katz
“Look, Felicity,' says Howard, 'there's only one rule. Follow the line of your own desires.”
Malcolm Bradbury book The History Man
Page 84.
The History Man (1975)
“I am Manuel, and I follow after my own thinking and my own desire.”
James Branch Cabell book Figures of Earth
Miramon, in Ch. IV : In the Doubtful Palace
Figures of Earth (1921)
Context: I am Manuel, and I follow after my own thinking and my own desire. Of course it is very fine of me to be renouncing so much wealth and power for the sake of my wonderful dear Niafer: but she is worth the sacrifice, and, besides, she is witnessing all this magnanimity, and cannot well fail to be impressed.
