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Top 10 Anne Desclos Quotes (2025 Update)

Anne Desclos Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

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Anne Desclos Quote: “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.”

2. “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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Anne Desclos Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

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Anne Desclos Quote: “You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.”

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

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Anne Desclos Quote: “To love is to live on the precipice.”

5. “To love is to live on the precipice.”

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Anne Desclos Quote: “I found that stiffly saluting member, of which he was so proud, rather frightening, and to tell the truth I found his pride slightly comical. I thought that that must be embarrassing for him, and thought how much more pleasant it was to be a girl. That, by the way, is an opinion I still hold today.”

6. “I found that stiffly saluting member, of which he was so proud, rather frightening, and to tell the truth I found his pride slightly comical. I thought that that must be embarrassing for him, and thought how much more pleasant it was to be a girl. That, by the way, is an opinion I still hold today.”

— Anne Desclos

Anne Desclos Quote: “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?”

7. “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

Anne Desclos Quote: “Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy – in abandoning oneself to the will of others.”

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

— Anne Desclos

Anne Desclos Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

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Anne Desclos Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Anne Desclos Quote: “I wasn’t young, I wasn’t pretty, it was necessary to find other weapons.”

11. “I wasn’t young, I wasn’t pretty, it was necessary to find other weapons.”

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Anne Desclos Quote: “I think I have a repressed bent for the military, I like discipline without question, specific schedules and duties.”

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

— Anne Desclos

Anne Desclos Quote: “By my makeup and temperament I wasn’t really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.”

13. “By my makeup and temperament I wasn’t really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.”

— Anne Desclos

Anne Desclos Quote: “Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing.”

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

— Anne Desclos

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