Through his passion nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

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.

In the original German

Die Natur hat ihm den Mann durch seine Leidenschaft preisgegeben, und das Weib, das aus ihm nicht seinen Untertan, seinen Sklaven, ja sein Spielzeug zu machen und ihn zuletzt lachend zu verraten versteht, ist nicht klug.

Venus in Furs · 1870
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Sacher-Masoch, Leopold. Venus in Furs, translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Penguin Classics, 2000.
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Sacher-Masoch, Leopold. Venus im Pelz [Venus in Furs]. Stuttgart, 1870.

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