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• Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable, scintillating electric batteries have been the favorite animal of a Mohammed, Cardinal Richlieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland.

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  Cat, Exercise, Men

  Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, Emil Marriot (1989). “Venus in Furs: A Novel ; Letters of Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch and Emilie Mataja”

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• 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

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  Beautiful, Tired, Kissing

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• You are cold, while you yourself fan flames.

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  Flames, Fans, Cold

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.21, Cosimo Classics

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• 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.

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  Our Love, Uniforms, Calm

  Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, Emil Marriot (1989). “Venus in Furs: A Novel ; Letters of Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch and Emilie Mataja”

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• Once I no longer exist as I am, out of what consideration then should I forgo anything? Should I belong to a man I don't love simply because I used to love him? No, I forgo nothing, I love any man who appeals to me and I make any man who loves me happy. Is that ugly? No, it is at least far more beautiful than my cruelly delighting in the tortures incited by my charms and my virtuously turning my back on the poor man who pines away for me. I am young, rich, and beautiful, and just as I am, I live cheerfully for pleasure and enjoyment.

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  Beautiful, Men, Ugly

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

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  Running, Laughing, Tears

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• Woman, as Nature has created her and as she is currently reared by man, is his enemy and can only be his slave or his despot, but never his companion. She will be able to become his companion only when she has the same rights as he, when she is his equal in education and work.

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  Men, Rights, Enemy

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

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  Men, Ridiculous, Weak

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

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  Art, Lovely, Littles

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• Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.

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  Men, Lasts, Fiber

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.49, Cosimo Classics

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• You cannot deny that love lasts for only a brief moment, uniting two beings as a single being that is capable of only one thought, one sensation, one will.

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  Two, Uniting, Lasts

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

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  Hands, Civilization, Progress

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• Above all else I am a dilettante in life.

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  Venus In Furs, Dilettantes

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.19, Cosimo Classics

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

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  Struggle, Men, Wish

  Gilles Deleuze, Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch (1971). “Masochism”, Zone Books (NY)

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

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  Hair, Mad, Soul

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

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  Cat, Fur, Batteries

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• Every woman has the instinct, the propensity to profit from her charms, and there's a lot to be said for giving oneself without love, without pleasure.

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  Giving, Pleasure, Instinct

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• 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.

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  Mind, Watches, Fur

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.31, Cosimo Classics

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

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  Heart, Void, My Heart

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.121, Cosimo Classics

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• Until then I had lived as I had painted and versified - that is, I never got far beyond priming canvas, beyond penning an outline, a first act, a first stanza. There are simply people who start all sorts of things and yet never finish any of them. And that was the kind of person I was.

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  People, Firsts, Kind

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