“Venus in Furs has caught his soul in the red snares of hair. He will paint her, and go mad.”
― Venus in Furs
― Venus in Furs
“I can easily imagine belonging to one man for my entire life, but he would have to be a whole man, a man who would dominate me, who would subjugate me by his inate strength. And every man—I know this very well—as soon as he falls in love becomes weak, pliable, ridiculous. He puts himself into the woman's hands, kneels down before her. The only man whom I could love permanently would be he before whom I should have to kneel.”
― Venus in Furs
― Venus in Furs
“My heart is a void, dead, and this makes me sad.”
― Venus in Furs
― 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.”
― Venus in Furs
― Venus in Furs
“Upon him I will visit famine and a fire,
Till all around him desolation rings
And all the demons in the outer dark
Look on amazed and recognize
That vengeance is the business of a man.”
― The Name of the Wind
Till all around him desolation rings
And all the demons in the outer dark
Look on amazed and recognize
That vengeance is the business of a man.”
― The Name of the Wind
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