Top 16 Anne Desclos Quotes

#1. I think that submissiveness can [be] and is a formidable weapon, which women will use as long as it isn't taken from them.

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#2. To love is to live on the precipice.

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#3. The voluntary captive
The speechless the prisoner
Which I hide in my very depths ...

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#4. Debauchery conceived of as a kind of ascetic experience is not new, either for men or for women, but until Story of O no woman to my knowledge had said it.

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#5. Woman ... is the divine object, violated, endlessly sacrificed yet always reborn, whose only joy, achieved through a subtle interplay of images, lies in contemplation of herself.

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#6. A truly submissive woman is to be treasured, cherished and protected for it is only she who can give a man the gift of dominance.

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#7. I wrote it alone, for him, to interest him, to please him, to occupy him. I wasn't young, nor particularly pretty. I needed something which might interest a man like him.

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#8. I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, it was necessary to find other weapons.

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#9. I think I have a repressed bent for the military, I like discipline without question, specific schedules and duties.

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#10. By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.

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#11. Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy - in abandoning oneself to the will of others.

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#12. Who I am finally, if not the long silent part of someone, the secret and nocturnal part which has never betrayed itself in public by any thought, word, or deed, but communicates through subterranean depths of the imaginary with dreams as old as the world itself?

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#13. O felt that her mouth was beautiful, since her lover condescended to thrust himself into it ...

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#14. Story of O is a fairy tale for another world, a world where some part of me lived for a long time, a world that no longer exists except between the covers of a book.

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#15. I found that stiffly saluting member, of which he was so proud, rather frightening, and to tell the truth I found his pride slightly comical. I thought that that must be embarrassing for him, and thought how much more pleasant it was to be a girl. That, by the way, is an opinion I still hold today.

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#16. Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing.

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