Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 15 | 79 | "Why do you not slay the View more quotes about golden">Golden Beetles?" I asked. |
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Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 15 | 76 | "One by one we succumb to the Pleasures of the Golden Beetle. |
| 15 | 77 | We grow old and there is little left for us. |
| 15 | 78 | At one time we were rich and filled with life and in that time our great patterns were formed and in another time our arts flourished and then for a very long time our only passion was scientific curiosity, but now even that lessens, even that lessens". |
| 15 | 79 | "Why do you not slay the Golden Beetles?" I asked. |
| 15 | 80 | "It would be wrong," said Misk. |
| 15 | 81 | "But they kill you," I said. |
| 15 | 82 | "It is well for us to die," said Misk, "for otherwise the Nest would be eternal and the Nest must not be eternal, for how could we love it if it were so?" I could not follow all of what Misk was saying, and I found it hard to take my eyes from the inert figure of the young male Priest-King which lay on the stone table. |
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"One by one we succumb to the Pleasures of the Golden Beetle.
We grow old and there is little left for us.
At one time we were rich and filled with life and in that time our great patterns were formed and in another time our arts flourished and then for a very long time our only passion was scientific curiosity, but now even that lessens, even that lessens".
"Why do you not slay the Golden Beetles?" I asked.
"It would be wrong," said Misk.
"But they kill you," I said.
"It is well for us to die," said Misk, "for otherwise the Nest would be eternal and the Nest must not be eternal, for how could we love it if it were so?" I could not follow all of what Misk was saying, and I found it hard to take my eyes from the inert figure of the young male Priest-King which lay on the stone table.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor)