Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 20 | 794 | You had dared, it View more quotes about seemed">seemed, to break the code of hypocrisy. |
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Book 16. (7 results) Guardsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 20 | 791 | My outrage gave way to gratitude and admiration. |
| 20 | 792 | Similarly, I asked myself, why was I scandalized. |
| 20 | 793 | Was this not connected with hidden fears of my own, that I might discover complementary needs within myself, the needs to own and be a master? Your confession, so expressive and poignant, tended to undermine a deceit of free persons. |
| 20 | 794 | You had dared, it seemed, to break the code of hypocrisy. |
| 20 | 795 | Had the gate to barbarism been left ajar? I regretted, for a time, the loss of the lie. |
| 20 | 796 | We grow fond of our myths. |
| 20 | 797 | Yet our myths are like walls of straw. |
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My outrage gave way to gratitude and admiration.
Similarly, I asked myself, why was I scandalized.
Was this not connected with hidden fears of my own, that I might discover complementary needs within myself, the needs to own and be a master? Your confession, so expressive and poignant, tended to undermine a deceit of free persons.
You had dared, it seemed, to break the code of hypocrisy.
Had the gate to barbarism been left ajar? I regretted, for a time, the loss of the lie.
We grow fond of our myths.
Yet our myths are like walls of straw.
- (Guardsman of Gor)