Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 20 | 796 | We grow View more quotes about fond">fond of our myths. |
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Book 16. (7 results) Guardsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 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. |
| 20 | 798 | Ultimately they cannot protect us. |
| 20 | 799 | Ultimately they must perish in the flames of truth". |
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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.
Ultimately they cannot protect us.
Ultimately they must perish in the flames of truth".
- (Guardsman of Gor)