Quotes by : Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

That love, which is the highest joy, which is divine simplicity itself, is not for you moderns, you children....

I really believe," said Wanda thoughtfully,"that your madness is nothing but a demonic, unsatisfied sensuality.....

I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds....

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

We are faithful as long as we love, but youdemand faithfulness of a woman without love, and the giving....

It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure.

Yet I am not writing with ordinary ink, but with red blood that dripsfrom my heart. All its wounds long....

You look at love, and especially woman, as something hostile, something against which you put up a defense,....

You view love and especially women...as something hostile, something against which you defend yourself,....

Alas, woman is faithful as long as she loves, but you demand that she be faithful without love and give....