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Obra de referencia para quien desee ahondar en los abismos de la sensualidad humana, la novela La Venus de las pieles alberga toda la constelación de símbolos que han pasado a definir el masoquismo: fetiches, látigos, disfraces, humillaciones, castigos y, por supuesto, la inmutable presencia de una terrible frialdad. La frialdad que exhibe la implacable y hermosa Wanda hacia Severin, por completo esclavizado.… (más)
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God did punish him. and deliver him into the hands of a woman.
- Judith 16:7
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My company was charming.
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"If the foundation of marriage depends on equality and agreement, it is likewise true that the greatest passions rise out of opposites. We are such opposites, almost enemies. That is why my love is part hate, part fear. In such a relation only one can be hammer and the other anvil. I wish to be the anvil. I cannot be happy when I look down upon the woman I love. I want to adore a woman, and this I can only do when she is cruel towards me."
"I really believe," said Wanda thoughtfully, "that your madness is nothing but a demonic, unsatisfied sensuality. Our unnatural way of life must generate such illnesses. Were you less virtuous, you would be completely sane."
Never feel secure with the woman you love, for there are more dangers in woman's nature than you imagine. Women are neither as good as their admirers and defenders maintain, nor as bad as their enemies make them out to be. Woman's character is characterlessness. The best woman will momentarily go down into the mire, and the worst unexpectedly rises to deeds of greatness and goodness and puts to shame those that despise her. No woman is so good or so bad, but that an any moment she is capable of the most diabolical as well as of the most divine, of the filthiest as well as of the purest, thoughts, emotions, and actions.
"I believe," she said, "that to hold a man permanently, it is vitally important not to be faithful to him. What honest woman has ever been as devotedly loved as a hetaira?"
A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly, especially when the instruction is by the way of a small woman's hand.
"Woman! Goddess! Are you without a heart—can't you love," exclaimed the German, "don't you even know, what it means to love, to be consumed with desire and passion, can't you even imagine what I suffer? Have you no pity for me?"
"No!" she replied proudly and mockingly, "but I have the whip."
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I had to smile, and as I fell to musing the beautiful woman suddenly stood before me in her velvet jacket trimmed with ermine, with the whip in her hand. And I continued to smile at the woman I had once loved so insanely, at the fur-jacket that had once so entranced me, at the whip, and ended by smiling at myself and saying: The cure was cruel, but radical; but the main point is, I have been cured.
Obra de referencia para quien desee ahondar en los abismos de la sensualidad humana, la novela La Venus de las pieles alberga toda la constelación de símbolos que han pasado a definir el masoquismo: fetiches, látigos, disfraces, humillaciones, castigos y, por supuesto, la inmutable presencia de una terrible frialdad. La frialdad que exhibe la implacable y hermosa Wanda hacia Severin, por completo esclavizado.