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Image, I think that submissiveness can [be] and is a formidable weapon, which

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

—Anne Desclos

Image, Debauchery conceived of as a kind of ascetic experience is not new,

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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.

—Anne Desclos

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

—Anne Desclos

Image, Woman … is the divine object, violated, endlessly sacrificed yet always reborn, whose

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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.

—Anne Desclos

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

—Anne Desclos

Image, A truly submissive woman is to be treasured, cherished and protected for

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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.

—Anne Desclos

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You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.

—Anne Desclos

Image, By my makeup and temperament I wasn’t really prey to physical desires.

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

—Anne Desclos

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Image, I wrote it alone, for him, to interest him, to please him,

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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.

—Anne Desclos

Image, I think I have a repressed bent for the military, I like

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

—Anne Desclos

Image, The fact that he gave her was to him a proof, and

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The fact that he gave her was to him a proof, and ought to be one for her as well that she belonged to him: one can only give what belongs to you.

—Anne Desclos

Image, Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the

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

—Anne Desclos

Image, Finally a woman confesses! Confess what? What women never allowed themselves to

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Finally a woman confesses! Confess what? What women never allowed themselves to confess. What men always criticized on them: they only obey the blood and everything is sex on them, even the spirit.

—Anne Desclos

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To love is to live on the precipice.

—Anne Desclos

Image, O was infinitely more moving when her body was covered with marks,

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O was infinitely more moving when her body was covered with marks, of whatever kind, if only because these marks made it impossible for her to cheat and immediately proclaimed, the moment they were seen, that anything went as far as she was concerned. For to know this was one thing, but to see the proof of it, and to see the proof constantly renewed, was quite another.

—Anne Desclos

Image, Who I am finally, if not the long silent part of someone,

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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?

—Anne Desclos

Image, Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you

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Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you dare. Anything that brings me closer to illness and the edge of death makes me more faithful. It is only when you make me suffer that I feel safe and secure. You should never have agreed to be a god for me if you were afraid to assume the duties of a god, and we know that they are not as tender as all that. You have already seen me cry. Now you must learn to relish my tears.