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Quotes About Desire

Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through his passion nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Well you know me Ã¢â'¬â€œ I am a woman of stone, your Venus in Furs, your ideal, so kneel and adore me.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
What you call cruel," the goddess of love replied eagerly, "is simply the element of passion and of natural love, which is woman's nature and makes her give herself where she loves, and makes her love everything, that pleases her.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
You were careless enough to leave me the choice. I choose therefore that you shall be my slave, and I shall make a toy out of you.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
if a woman wants to captivate a man forever she must, above all, be unfaithful to him.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Muž je tím žádajícím, žena tím žádoucím, to je ta celá, ale rozhodující výhoda ženy; pÃ…â"¢íroda jí muže díky jeho váÅ¡ni vydala na pospas, a žena, která si z nÄ›j neumí udÄ›lat svého poddaného, svého otroka, ba svou hra?ku a nakonen jej nedokáže se smíchem zradit, není chytrá.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Cuanto más fácilmente se entrega la mujer, más frío e imperioso es el hombre. Pero cuanto más cruel e infiel le es, cuanto más juega de una manera criminal, cuanta menos piedad le demuestra, más excita sus deseos, más la ama y la desea.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
fratele sãu mai mare, care È™edea cu o carte latineascã sub teiul bãtrân din faÈ›a curÈ›ii parohiale È™i pentru care pãsãrile cântau în zadar, iar soarele îÈ™i risipea fãrã folos aurul topit.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
The Baron had become her slave: whatever she demanded of him he carried out with pleasure. When her humour so decreed, he would lie at her feet like a slave..., like a dog!
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Aber du willst nur mein sein unter Bedingungen, während ich dir bedingungslos gehöre.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
But you cannot deny that man and woman, as much in your serene sunlit world as in our foggy one, are natural enemies and that Love unites them together for a short time which is capable only of one thought, feeling or will, only to split them apart even more and you know better than I, the one who does not know how to subjugate will quickly feel the foot of the other on his naked body
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
The more the woman shows herself submissive, the quicker the man becomes bored and overbearing; but the crueler and more faithless she is, the more she mistreats him, the more frivolously she plays with him and the less mercy she shows, the more she excites the lust of the man and is loved and worshiped by him. It was like that in all eras Ã¢â'¬â€œ from Helen and Delilah to Catherine the Great and Lola Montez
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Should I belong to one man whom I do not love, only because I loved him once? No, I cannot renounce Ã¢â'¬â€œ I love him who pleases me and if he loves me, I make him happy. Is that so awful? It is at least much better than if I were to cruelly revel in the torments that my charms inspire and prudishly turn away from the one who is in love with me. I am young, beautiful and so I live happily for pleasure and desire.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
You are the sort of man who could quite ruin a woman
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
There is a type of woman who, ever since my boyhood, has invariably attracted me.    She is the woman with the eyes of a sphinx, whom desire makes cruel and cruelty makes desirous.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Te roba algo de tu alegría que yo haya pertenecido antes a otro y que otro me posea después de ti? ¿Será menor tu placer porque otro haya sido feliz como tú?
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
The pupils of her eyes widened, her nostrils trembled, and when she pressed up against him tenderly and began kissing him, she bared her teeth, a graceful predator in all her unfettered cruelty.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
If only I could give you my total soul in one kiss
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Before you, that another will possess me after you and would you enjoy it the less if another was happy at the same time as you?
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don't want to.
~ lerner harriet