Book 15. (1 results) Rogue of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 11 | 351 | View more quotes about perhaps">Perhaps we should not be true to ourselves. |
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Book 15. (7 results) Rogue of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 11 | 348 | Doubtless the question is difficult. |
| 11 | 349 | It is always hard to know the truth and pretend not to believe it. |
| 11 | 350 | Perhaps we should not be men and women. |
| 11 | 351 | Perhaps we should not be true to ourselves. |
| 11 | 352 | But even if we should deny ourselves, and starve, and torture and frustrate ourselves, we would still, in the end, be ourselves. |
| 11 | 353 | We would remain men and women, only then, perhaps, mutilated and sickened men and women, useful tools in the schemes of others, of cunning and pathological frustrates, themselves often as confused and miserable as the uncritical creatures they would systematically delude. |
| 11 | 354 | We are what we are, and will remain so, regardless of what we may be taught to believe. |
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Doubtless the question is difficult.
It is always hard to know the truth and pretend not to believe it.
Perhaps we should not be men and women.
Perhaps we should not be true to ourselves.
But even if we should deny ourselves, and starve, and torture and frustrate ourselves, we would still, in the end, be ourselves.
We would remain men and women, only then, perhaps, mutilated and sickened men and women, useful tools in the schemes of others, of cunning and pathological frustrates, themselves often as confused and miserable as the uncritical creatures they would systematically delude.
We are what we are, and will remain so, regardless of what we may be taught to believe.
- (Rogue of Gor)