"By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?"

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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 and obligatory debauchery, to fulfill her own dream-that is, her own destruction and death? And, in some surreptitious way, isn't she in charge of them? Doesn't she bend them to her will?

— Anne Desclos