"I wrote it alone, for him, to interest……" — Anne Desclos
"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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19 Quotes by Anne Desclos
Anne Desclos has 19 quotes on this site.
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Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing.
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Who I am finally, if not the long silent part of someone, the secret and nocturnal part which has never…
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I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, it was necessary to find other weapons.
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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…
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Is O used by René and Sir Stephen, or does she in fact use them, and...all those irons and chains…
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Debauchery conceived of as a kind of ascetic experience is not new, either for men or for women, but until…
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I think I have a repressed bent for the military, I like discipline without question, specific schedules and duties.
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By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.
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Story of O is a fairy tale for another world, a world where some part of me lived for a…
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I found that stiffly saluting member, of which he was so proud, rather frightening, and to tell the truth I…
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To love is to live on the precipice.
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Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you dare. Anything that brings me closer to illness…
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
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