Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 2 | 6 | Our View more quotes about lives">lives are changed, profoundly. |
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Book 27. (7 results) Prize of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 2 | 3 | Have we not all been upon occasion petulant, selfish, careless, arrogant, sometimes cruel? Have we not all upon occasion behaved disgracefully, unworthily? Have we not ignored others? Have we not, in lesser or larger ways, injured them, and enjoyed, if only briefly, the smug gratifications of doing so? What happened to her might happen to anyone, one supposes, to those gentler, kinder and deeper than she, and to those more shallow, more petty, nastier than she. |
| 2 | 4 | It is true however that such as she, and her sisters, so to speak, under discipline, are quickly brought into line, the gentlest and the sweetest, and those who hitherto, perhaps in their unhappiness and lack of fulfillment, in their vanities and impatience, and haughtiness, were not only permitted but encouraged by an androgynous society to abuse their liberties. |
| 2 | 5 | We are brought into line. |
| 2 | 6 | Our lives are changed, profoundly. |
| 2 | 7 | We are taught many things, all of us, including ourselves. |
| 2 | 8 | We do not know, in full, what their criteria are, for such as she, and others, not at all why such as she, and others, are selected. |
| 2 | 9 | It does seem clear that their criteria include high intelligence. |
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Have we not all been upon occasion petulant, selfish, careless, arrogant, sometimes cruel? Have we not all upon occasion behaved disgracefully, unworthily? Have we not ignored others? Have we not, in lesser or larger ways, injured them, and enjoyed, if only briefly, the smug gratifications of doing so? What happened to her might happen to anyone, one supposes, to those gentler, kinder and deeper than she, and to those more shallow, more petty, nastier than she.
It is true however that such as she, and her sisters, so to speak, under discipline, are quickly brought into line, the gentlest and the sweetest, and those who hitherto, perhaps in their unhappiness and lack of fulfillment, in their vanities and impatience, and haughtiness, were not only permitted but encouraged by an androgynous society to abuse their liberties.
We are brought into line.
Our lives are changed, profoundly.
We are taught many things, all of us, including ourselves.
We do not know, in full, what their criteria are, for such as she, and others, not at all why such as she, and others, are selected.
It does seem clear that their criteria include high intelligence.
- (Prize of Gor)