Gicev

“You are cold, while you yourself fan flames.”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs

“My heart is a void, dead, and this makes me sad.”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, 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.”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs

“The moral of the tale is this: whoever allows himself to be whipped,
deserves to be whipped.”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs