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| 7 | 573 | But if, in an unguarded View more quotes about moment">moment, I had suddenly glimpsed my terror at the prospect of fulfilling myself, of accepting the responsibility, the joy and incredible power, energizing and exalting, of the mastership, of answering the obvious depth needs of the lovely, surrendered female before me, I swiftly thrust such a frightening comprehension out of my thoughts. |
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| 7 | 570 | One who fears to be a master, who doubts his capacity, his power, his strength, his will, his resoluteness, will be expected to turn a deaf ear to the pleas of even the most piteous of beautiful slaves. |
| 7 | 571 | How can he be expected to fulfill another who fears, first, to fulfill himself? No man can be truly happy who does not own a slave. |
| 7 | 572 | No woman can be truly happy who does not belong to a master. |
| 7 | 573 | But if, in an unguarded moment, I had suddenly glimpsed my terror at the prospect of fulfilling myself, of accepting the responsibility, the joy and incredible power, energizing and exalting, of the mastership, of answering the obvious depth needs of the lovely, surrendered female before me, I swiftly thrust such a frightening comprehension out of my thoughts. |
| 7 | 574 | I feared to look deeply into myself, and into women. |
| 7 | 575 | Was I strong enough to accept honestly what I might find there? Is it not safer to cower in the caves of lies than stand upon the cliffs of truth, surveying the world? Yet when one stands in the sunlight, and feels the winds of reality, how dank and shameful seem the dark shelters of falsehood, and how foolish it seems then to have once feared daylight and fresh air. |
| 7 | 576 | But swiftly I, a man of Earth, well tutored in my myths, scoffed that I might have feared to assume my manhood. |