Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 20 | 797 | Yet our myths are like View more quotes about walls">walls of straw. |
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Book 16. (7 results) Guardsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 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". |
| 20 | 800 | "You would have taken me," she asked, "knowing that I had slave needs?" "Your slave needs," he said, "made you a thousand times more desirable. |
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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".
"You would have taken me," she asked, "knowing that I had slave needs?" "Your slave needs," he said, "made you a thousand times more desirable.
- (Guardsman of Gor)