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| 15 | 389 | Too, how dishonorable to View more quotes about deny">deny truth! How unworthy, as well as stupid, in the face of facts, to lie to oneself! No, she knew she was owned, owned in fact, owned in perfect, clear, indisputable fact. |
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| 15 | 386 | Perhaps, she thought, suddenly, wildly, I could pretend to be his slave; I could merely let him think that he is my master! Could I not keep myself a free woman, though branded, though in my collar? But then she almost choked with the silliness, the absurdity, the meaninglessness of this. |
| 15 | 387 | How foreign to her reality would be such a pretense, how irrelevant to fact would be such a silly inward game! It would be a falsification of truth. |
| 15 | 388 | Who cared if a dog or a pig pretended not to be owned? Reality remained unchanged. |
| 15 | 389 | Too, how dishonorable to deny truth! How unworthy, as well as stupid, in the face of facts, to lie to oneself! No, she knew she was owned, owned in fact, owned in perfect, clear, indisputable fact. |
| 15 | 390 | That was what she was, slave. |
| 15 | 391 | And she knew, too, that that was what she had always wanted to be, to be owned, and to serve. |
| 15 | 392 | She acknowledged that she was a natural slave, and that she had now been, as her master had called to her attention, fittingly embonded. |