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Every man
I know this
turns weak, pliant, ridiculous as soon as he's in love.

The struggle of the spirit against the senses is the gospel of modern man. I do not wish to have any part in it.

Despite all the progress of civilization, women have remained exactly as they emerged from the hand of Nature.

The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask.

You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood ...

Man desires, woman is desired.

You of the North in general take love too soberly and seriously. You talk of duties where there should be only a question of pleasure.

But why talk in superlatives, as if something that is beautiful could be surpassed?

The moral of the tale is this: whoever allows himself to be whipped,
deserves to be whipped.

Dangerous forces lie within me. You awaken them, and not to your advantage. You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

My heart is a void, dead, and this makes me sad.

Venus in Furs has caught his soul in the red snares of hair. He will paint her, and go mad.

So," Wanda cried, "a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery?

The real comic muse is the one underwhose laughing mask tears roll down.

Work on.
Work as if every time you started with and every time you finish.

Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman.

She had wrapped her marble-like body in a huge fur, and rolled herself up trembling like a cat.

Place thy foot upon thy slave,
Oh thou, half of hell, half of dreams;
Among the shadows, dark and grave,
Thy extended body softly gleams.

It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure.

Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman's nature conceals more dangers than you think.

You are cold, while you yourself fan flames.

All about us the earth steamed; mists rose up toward heaven like clouds of incense; a shattered rainbow still hovered in the air.

A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly.

Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life.

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason ...

A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone.

There is no describing the feeling of being mistreated by a successful rival in front of the woman you worship.

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman?

You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.

The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of his neck.

Watch out, I have a large, very large fur, with which I could cover you up entirely, and I have a mind to catch you in it as in a net.