„Non lasciar nutrire una vana speranza non è crudele, ma onesto.“
Origine: L'amore crudele, p. 108
Data di nascita: 27. Gennaio 1836
Data di morte: 9. Marzo 1895
Altri nomi: Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch, Լեոպոլդ ֆոն Զախեր Մազոխ
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch è stato un giornalista, romanziere e scrittore austriaco di origini spagnole e ucraine. Il termine "masochismo" deriva appunto da lui.
„Non lasciar nutrire una vana speranza non è crudele, ma onesto.“
Origine: L'amore crudele, p. 108
„La virtù non consiste nei principî, ma unicamente nell'amore.“
Origine: L'amore crudele, p. 108
„Above all else I am a dilettante in life.“
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, libro Venere in pelliccia
Venus in Furs
da una lettera ad Ambrogio Bazzero, Lipsia 10 gennaio 1882
Origine: L'amore crudele, p. 89-90
„Grillparzer era poeta nell'anima e i suoi eroi li traeva dal fondo del proprio essere.“
Origine: L'amore crudele, p. 90
Origine: L'amore crudele, p. 94-95
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, libro Venere in pelliccia
Origine: Venus in Furs
„You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood…“
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, libro Venere in pelliccia
Origine: Venus in Furs
„A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly.“
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, libro Venere in pelliccia
Origine: Venus in Furs
„Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire“
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, libro Venere in pelliccia
Origine: Venus in Furs
„The moral of the tale is this: whoever allows himself to be whipped,
deserves to be whipped.“
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, libro Venere in pelliccia
Origine: Venus in Furs (1870)
Contesto: "And the moral of the story?" I said to Severin when I put the manuscript down on the table.
"That I was a donkey," he exclaimed without turning around, for he seemed to be embarrassed. "If only I had beaten her!"
"A curious remedy," I exclaimed, "which might answer with your peasant-women-"
"Oh, they are used to it," he replied eagerly, "but imagine the effect upon one of our delicate, nervous, hysterical ladies--"
"But the moral?"
"That woman, as nature has created her and as man is at present educating her, is his enemy. She can only be his slave or his despot, but never his companion. This she can become only when she has the same rights as he, and is his equal in education and work."
"At present we have only the choice of being hammer or anvil, and I was the kind of donkey who let a woman make a slave of him, do you understand?"
"The moral of the tale is this: whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped."
„So,” Wanda cried, “a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery?“
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, libro Venere in pelliccia
Origine: Venus in Furs
„You are cold, while you yourself fan flames.“
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, libro Venere in pelliccia
Origine: Venus in Furs