Book 23. (1 results) Renegades of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 16 | 224 | In a View more quotes about sense">sense, then, she knows she cannot be other than herself, but is unwilling to accept herself. |
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Book 23. (7 results) Renegades of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 16 | 221 | and can never be. |
| 16 | 222 | That can never be, nor should it be. |
| 16 | 223 | What a repugnant triumph would be such a charade! In such a victory, were it possible, she would bring about only her own ruin. |
| 16 | 224 | In a sense, then, she knows she cannot be other than herself, but is unwilling to accept herself. |
| 16 | 225 | And so she tries to pretend she is not herself. |
| 16 | 226 | In a sense, then, she tries to live a lie. |
| 16 | 227 | She is alienated from her deepest self, which she hysterically denies, and from which she hides in terror. |
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and can never be.
That can never be, nor should it be.
What a repugnant triumph would be such a charade! In such a victory, were it possible, she would bring about only her own ruin.
In a sense, then, she knows she cannot be other than herself, but is unwilling to accept herself.
And so she tries to pretend she is not herself.
In a sense, then, she tries to live a lie.
She is alienated from her deepest self, which she hysterically denies, and from which she hides in terror.
- (Renegades of Gor)