Amaris

“Dangerous forces lie within me. You awaken them, and not to your advantage. You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs

“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, Venus in Furs

“but you want faithfulness without love from the woman and giving of herself without pleasure – so who is the cruel one – the man or the woman? In the north you take love too seriously. You speak of duty, where you should only talk of satisfaction.”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus In Furs

“Love knows no virtue, no profit; it loves and forgives and suffers
everything, because it must. It is not our judgment that leads us;
it is neither the advantages nor the faults which we discover, that
make us abandon ourselves, or that repel us.

It is a sweet, soft, enigmatic power that drives us on. We cease to
think, to feel, to will; we let ourselves be carried away by it, and
ask not whither?”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs