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Anne Desclos Biography

Anne Cécile Desclos (23 September 1907 – 27 April 1998) was a French journalist and novelist who wrote under the pseudonyms Dominique Aury and Pauline Réage.

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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.

Formidable, Long, Submissiveness, Taken, Thinking, Weapon

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

Familiar, Joy, Kinky, Mystics, Oneself, Taste

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.

Ascetic, Experience, Kinky, Men, Stories, Story

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

Depth, Kinky, Speechless, Depths, Voluntary

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

Discipline, Duties, Like, Military, Repressed, Thinking

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

Kinky, Necessary, Pretty, Weapons, Young

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

Desire, Happened, Head, Kinky, Makeup, Temperament

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.

Dominance, Gift, Giving, Men, Protected, Treasured

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.

Body, Infinitely, Kinky, Moving, Proof

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.

Allowed, Blood, Everything, Men, Sex

A man in love. . . is the master, so it seems, but only if his lady friend permits it! The need to interchange the roles of slave and master for the sake of the relationship is never more clearly demonstrated than in the course of an affair. Never is the complicity between victim and executioner more essential. Even chained, down on her knees, begging for mercy, it is the woman, finally, who is in command. . . the all powerful slave, dragging herself along the ground at her master's heels, is now really the god. The man is only her priest, living in fear and trembling of her displeasure.

Love, Love Is, Powerful, Slave, Women

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.

Faithful, Feed, Safe, Suffering, Tears

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

Past, Pleasure, Stage, Tears

To love is to live on the precipice.

Kinky, Live, Love, Love Is, Precipice

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.

Book, Exists, Long, Part, Stories

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.

Belonged, Facts, Gave, Giving, Kinky, Proof

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