My heart is a void, dead, and this makes me sad.
Leopold von Sacher-MasochTag: venus-in-furs
Venus in Furs has caught his soul in the red snares of hair. He will paint her, and go mad.
Leopold von Sacher-MasochTag: venus-in-furs redhead
She had wrapped her marble-like body in a huge fur, and rolled herself up trembling like a cat.
Leopold von Sacher-MasochTag: cat venus venus-in-furs
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.
Leopold von Sacher-MasochTag: love pleasure venus-in-furs
That love, which is the highest joy, which is divine simplicity itself, is not for you moderns, you children of reflection. It works only evil in you. As soon as you wish to be natural, you become common. To you nature seems something hostile; you have made devils out of the smiling gods of Greece, and out of me a demon. You can only exorcise and curse me, or slay yourselves in bacchantic madness before my altar. And if ever one of you has had the courage to kiss my red mouth, he makes a barefoot pilgrimage to Rome in penitential robes and expects flowers to grow from his withered staff, while under my feet roses, violets, and myrtles spring up every hour, but their fragrance does not agree with you. Stay among your northern fogs and Christian incense; let us pagans remain under the debris, beneath the lava; do not disinter us.
Leopold von Sacher-MasochTag: love evil pagans lava venus-in-furs
He simply painted the portrait of some aristocratic Mesalina, and was tactful enough to let Cupid hold the mirror in which she tests her majestic allure with cold satisfaction. He looks as though his task were becoming burdensome enough. The picture is painted flattery. Later an 'expert' in the Rococo period baptized the lady with the name of Venus. The furs of the despot in which Titian's fair model wrapped herself, probably more for fear of a cold than out of modesty, have become a symbol of the tyranny and cruelty that constitute woman's essence and her beauty.
Leopold von Sacher-MasochTag: venus-in-furs
Woman's power lies in man's passion, and she knows how to use it, if man doesn't understand himself. He has only one choice: to be the tyrant over or the slave of woman.
Leopold von Sacher-MasochTag: passion power slave venus-in-furs
The real comic muse is the one underwhose laughing mask tears roll down.
Leopold von Sacher-MasochTag: tears mask muse venus-in-furs
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.
Leopold von Sacher-MasochTag: love passion smile unrequited-love morbid intense venus-in-furs
You are cold, while you yourself fan flames.
Leopold von Sacher-MasochTag: cold flames venus-in-furs
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