Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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.

Anne Desclos's Popular Quotes

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 sa…

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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…

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

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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 s…

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

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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 c…

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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 …

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I wrote 'The story of O' alone, for Dominique Aury, to interest him, to please him, to occupy him. I wasn't young, nor particularly pretty. I needed …

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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.

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