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| 8 | 558 | I was View more quotes about confused">confused and torn. |
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| 8 | 555 | Oddly enough I had felt most a slave, most dominated, in the house of Kliomenes when, in the office of Publius, the men had talked, and I had knelt alone and to one side, my head down, in the light, neglected, braceleted, waiting for the men, the masters, to finish. |
| 8 | 556 | I hurried along in the alley behind Drusus Rencius. |
| 8 | 557 | I tried to fight the emotions rising in me, welling up, irresistibly, from my very depths. |
| 8 | 558 | I was confused and torn. |
| 8 | 559 | In me conditioning warred with nature. |
| 8 | 560 | Men were the masters. |
| 8 | 561 | Did they not know that? Why did they not enforce their power, their will on us? Could they not see what we wanted, what we needed? Were they so inattentive and insensitive? Were they so stupid, so blind? Could they not see that I, in order to attain my perfection, needed the weight of a chain, the taste of a whip? Could they not see that I could not be perfect until my will was taken from me, and I must serve will-lessly? Could they not see that this was what I wanted? I was not a man. |