Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 9 | 319 | "You cannot be View more quotes about serious">serious," I said. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 9 | 316 | A culture, on the other hand, though it might crumble and lapse into obsolescence, was commonly not organic, but mechanistic, and the functioning of the machine required not the happiness, health, or welfare of its parts, but only that they functioned appropriately, contributing to the pointless longevity of the machine itself. |
| 9 | 317 | "Is there no such thing as nature?" I asked. |
| 9 | 318 | "Is there only misery, prisons, guns, and hatred?" "Nature does not exist," she said. |
| 9 | 319 | "You cannot be serious," I said. |
| 9 | 320 | "It does not exist in any important sense," she said. |
| 9 | 321 | "If not," I said, "why must it be so fiercely contested, so strenuously fought against?" "It is inimical to civilization," she said. |
| 9 | 322 | "Only to unnatural civilizations," I said. |
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A culture, on the other hand, though it might crumble and lapse into obsolescence, was commonly not organic, but mechanistic, and the functioning of the machine required not the happiness, health, or welfare of its parts, but only that they functioned appropriately, contributing to the pointless longevity of the machine itself.
"Is there no such thing as nature?" I asked.
"Is there only misery, prisons, guns, and hatred?" "Nature does not exist," she said.
"You cannot be serious," I said.
"It does not exist in any important sense," she said.
"If not," I said, "why must it be so fiercely contested, so strenuously fought against?" "It is inimical to civilization," she said.
"Only to unnatural civilizations," I said.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)