Richard von Krafft-Ebing

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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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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'

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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

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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

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I have also fantasised myself to be his female slave, but this does not suffice, for after all every woman can be the slave of her husband