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| 26 | 1154 | Could an View more quotes about entire">entire species be in error? And I knew too much history, over a thousand generations, to suppose that the biography of a race was an inexplicable accident, a mere haphazard contingency that might as easily have been otherwise, that it was without meaning or foundation, that there no reason why it was as it was. |
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| 26 | 1151 | How cruel they are! How I need, want and love them! On Earth, I tried to hate them, as my sisters wished, but would not say, but even in my determination to conform to these sororal demands, and in the midst of my prescribed, routinely uttered critiques and denunciations, I found them fascinating. |
| 26 | 1152 | I wondered even then what it would be to belong to them, fully, as a chattel, as so many women in history, my sisters, belonged to them. |
| 26 | 1153 | I found it hard to believe that human nature was a mistake, and biology incorrect. |
| 26 | 1154 | Could an entire species be in error? And I knew too much history, over a thousand generations, to suppose that the biography of a race was an inexplicable accident, a mere haphazard contingency that might as easily have been otherwise, that it was without meaning or foundation, that there no reason why it was as it was. |
| 26 | 1155 | And I wondered if I had not on Earth betrayed my truths and sold my happiness to please others. |
| 26 | 1156 | What reward will compensate one for that? Lies are expensive, and sorely purchased! There are gains and losses, always, but the gain of the few may be the loss of the many, and one wonders if the few have truly gained. |
| 26 | 1157 | Can hunger and unhappiness, sorrow and misery, hatred and pain, illness and tragedy, really be the evidential insignia of health and truth? It does not seem likely. |