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| 17 | 604 | But is that not a true View more quotes about slavery">slavery, a true holding of oneself in bondage, a hypocritical slavery, a lying, worthless slavery, a slavery less worthy than confessing to oneself one's own self, and allowing it to speak openly? How much inner conflict might be thus avoided! But she lay very still, torn in her thought, afflicted by inner torments. |
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| 17 | 601 | She could not help what she was! To be sure, she resolved to attempt to conceal what she was. |
| 17 | 602 | None must suspect that she was a slave! She must attempt to deny this even to herself, as she had desperately for years on Earth. |
| 17 | 603 | Surely it must be wrong to be what one most truthfully, and deeply, was! Surely one must guide one's behavior, even one's thoughts, in so far as it was possible, in order to comply with cultural imperatives, with ideological demands, with external wishes and desires. |
| 17 | 604 | But is that not a true slavery, a true holding of oneself in bondage, a hypocritical slavery, a lying, worthless slavery, a slavery less worthy than confessing to oneself one's own self, and allowing it to speak openly? How much inner conflict might be thus avoided! But she lay very still, torn in her thought, afflicted by inner torments. |
| 17 | 605 | He must not touch her! She knew she was a slave. |
| 17 | 606 | "She is young, but seems of interest," said the man. |
| 17 | 607 | Ellen turned her head to the side in misery. |