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Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Austrian writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term masochism is derived from his name.During his lifetime, Sacher-Masoch was well known as a man of letters, a utopian thinker who espoused socialist and humanist ideals in his fiction and non-fiction. Most of his works remain untranslated into English. The novel Venus in Furs is his only book commonly available in English.See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_...
years of life: 27 January 1836 9 March 1895

Quotes

Лілітhas quoted5 months ago
She stopped. "I am beginning to enjoy it," she said, "but enough for to-day. I am beginning to feel a demonic curiosity to see how far your strength goes. I take a cruel joy in seeing you tremble and writhe beneath my whip, and in hearing your groans and wails; I want to go on whipping without pity until you beg for mercy, until you lose your senses. You have awakened dangerous elements in my being. But now get up."
ardohinmiahas quoted4 months ago
"We are faithful as long as we love, but you demand faithfulness of a woman without love, and the giving of herself without enjoyment. Who is cruel there—woman or man?
ardohinmiahas quoted4 months ago
Yet I am not writing with ordinary ink, but with red blood that drips from my heart.
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