Richard von Krafft-Ebing quotes
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“All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.”
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“I have fooled life and life has fooled me. We are quits. I say good-bye. Think sometimes in the hour of happiness of your poor, comical fool who loved you truly and so well.”
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“There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.”
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“He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself.”
-- Richard von Krafft-EbingSource : Richard Von Krafft-Ebing (2013). “Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study”, p.156, Butterworth-Heinemann
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“Purely sensual love is never true or lasting, for which reason first love is, as a rule, but a passing infatuation, a fleeting passion. - Richard Von Krafft”
-- Richard von Krafft-EbingSource : "Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study".
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“The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'.”
-- Richard von Krafft-EbingSource : Richard Von Krafft-Ebing (2013). “Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study”, p.146, Butterworth-Heinemann
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“Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.”
-- Richard von Krafft-EbingSource : Richard Von Krafft-Ebing (2013). “Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study”, p.418, Butterworth-Heinemann
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“How deep congenital sex-inversion roots may be gathered from the fact that the pleasure-dream of the male Urning has to do with male persons, and of the female with females.”
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“I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.”
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Source : "American Power and the New Mandarins". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1969.
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“Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.”
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Source : "Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas". Book by Abby Sunderland and Lynn Vincent, 2011.
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“Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.”
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