{"author":"Leopold von Sacher-Masoch","author_id":"Leopold+von+Sacher-Masoch","total_quotes":15,"quotes":[{"text":"You view love and especially women...As something hostile, something against which you defend yourself, although in vain, something whose power over you, however, you feel as a sweet torment, a prickling cruelty: this is truly a modern attitude.","author":"Leopold von Sacher-Masoch","tags":["christianity","desire","love","men","power","women"],"id":12585,"author_id":"Leopold+von+Sacher-Masoch"},{"text":"I really believe,' said Wanda thoughtfully,'that your madness is nothing but a demonic, unsatisfied sensuality. Our unnatural way of life must generate such illnesses. Were you less virtuous, you would be completely sane.","author":"Leopold von Sacher-Masoch","tags":["masochism","sanity","sensuality","virtue"],"id":32070,"author_id":"Leopold+von+Sacher-Masoch"},{"text":"Work on.' Work as if every time you started with and every time you finish.","author":"Leopold von Sacher-Masoch","tags":["art","finish","starting","time","work"],"id":58038,"author_id":"Leopold+von+Sacher-Masoch"},{"text":"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.","author":"Leopold von Sacher-Masoch","tags":["intense","love","morbid","passion","smile","unrequited-love","venus-in-furs"],"id":68002,"author_id":"Leopold+von+Sacher-Masoch"},{"text":"So,” Wanda cried, “a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery?","author":"Leopold von Sacher-Masoch","tags":["battery","cat","masochism","women"],"id":73084,"author_id":"Leopold+von+Sacher-Masoch"},{"text":"Alas, woman is faithful as long as she loves, but you demand that she be faithful without love and give herself without enjoyment. Who is cruel then, woman or man?","author":"Leopold von Sacher-Masoch","tags":["love","relationships","women"],"id":109878,"author_id":"Leopold+von+Sacher-Masoch"},{"text":"Yet I am not writing with ordinary ink, but with red blood that dripsfrom my heart. All its wounds long scarred over have opened and itthrobs and hurts, and now and then a tear falls on the paper.","author":"Leopold von Sacher-Masoch","tags":["hurt","love","pain","venus"],"id":209952,"author_id":"Leopold+von+Sacher-Masoch"},{"text":"You look at love, and especially woman, as something hostile, something against which you put up a defense, even if unsuccessfully. You feel that their power over you gives you a sensation of pleasurable torture, of pungent cruelty. This is a genuinely modern point of view.","author":"Leopold von Sacher-Masoch","tags":["cruelty","love","venus-in-furs","woman"],"id":252771,"author_id":"Leopold+von+Sacher-Masoch"},{"text":"We are faithful as long as we love, but youdemand faithfulness of a woman without love, and the giving ofherself without enjoyment. Who is cruel there--woman or man?","author":"Leopold von Sacher-Masoch","tags":["cruel","hurt","love","man","pain","venus","woman"],"id":280408,"author_id":"Leopold+von+Sacher-Masoch"},{"text":"My husband's personality was filled with serenity and sunlight. Not even the incurable illness which fell upon him soon after our marriage could long cloud his brow. On the very night of his death he took me in his arms, and during the many months when he lay dying in his wheel chair, he often said jokingly to me: 'Well, have you already picked out a lover?' I blushed with shame. 'Don't deceive me,' he added on one occasion, 'that would seem ugly to me, but pick out an attractive lover, or preferably several. You are a splendid woman, but still half a child, and you need toys.","author":"Leopold von Sacher-Masoch","tags":["husband","lover","venus-in-furs"],"id":299748,"author_id":"Leopold+von+Sacher-Masoch"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}