| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 9 | 2117 | To be View more quotes about sure">sure we are helpless, in fact, in our ropes and chains, and in our bracelets. |
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| 9 | 2114 | It is hard to wear the chains of a man and not know you are his slave. |
| 9 | 2115 | Profoundly, I suppose, these things have to do with nature and her lovely mysteries, encoded genetically into the very heritage of a species, yes, there, a thousand leagues beneath the superficial trivialities of politics and convention, with dominance and submission. |
| 9 | 2116 | In this sense one can understand the ceremony of chains, the rituals of braceleting, the symbolism of the blindfold, the gag, the whip. |
| 9 | 2117 | To be sure we are helpless, in fact, in our ropes and chains, and in our bracelets. |
| 9 | 2118 | And sight is not permitted to us when we are blindfolded, nor is speech permitted us when we are gagged. |
| 9 | 2119 | This power is not only symbolic but real. |
| 9 | 2120 | And the lash, too, is real. |