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A classic work of literature that delves into the complex psychological interplay between a dominant male and a female dominatrix, examining the boundaries of consent and the nature of desire.
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“Above all else I am a dilettante in life.”
“You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood.”
“Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman.”
“My heart is a void, dead, and this makes me sad.”
“You are cold, while you yourself fan flames.”
“You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.”
“Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.”
“The moral of the tale is this: whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped.”
“The real comic muse is the one underwhose laughing mask tears roll down.”
“She had wrapped her marble-like body in a huge fur, and rolled herself up trembling like a cat.”
“Aber du willst nur mein sein unter Bedingungen, während ich dir bedingungslos gehöre.”
“You have taught me what love is. Your serene form of worship let me forget two thousand years.”