"Who I am finally, if not the long……" — Anne Desclos
"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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Anne Desclos
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19 Quotes by Anne Desclos
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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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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 wrote it alone, for him, to interest him, to please him, to occupy him. I wasn't young, nor particularly…
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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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