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

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

O felt that her mouth was beautiful, since her lover condescended to thrust himself into it . . .

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

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 something which might interest a man like him.

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

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.