Amela

“I imagine that the goddess of Love has come down from Olympus to visit a mortal. So as not to die of cold in this modern world of ours, she wraps her sublime body in great heavy furs and warms her feet on the prostrate body of her lover. I imagine the favorite of this beautiful despot, who is whipped when his mistress grows tired of kissing him, and whose love only grows more intense the more he is trampled underfoot. I shall call the picture "Venus in Furs”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs

“Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs

“The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“You see, but you do not observe.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia