You view love and especially women...as something hostile, something against which you defend yourself, although in vain, something whose power over you, however, you feel as a sweet torment, a prickling cruelty: this is truly a modern attitude.

Leopold Von SacherMasoch
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Many people consider love as something violent and hostile. If a person has love for another person, there is a strong chance that person will try to hurt the other person in some way. The person who said this was describing a very modern view of love that is not at all the way that the world used to be. In the past, people were more open with their emotions and less willing to hurt others.

In fact, there were many poems written about love and how people needed it to make the world a better place. Today, however, we have been taught to hide our emotions from each other and use them as weapons instead of allowing them to grow into loving relationships.

Source: Venus In Furs

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