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| 3 | 700 | He gestures, I View more quotes about thought">thought, and we yield; he commands, and we obey; he proves himself to us by our conquest and subjugation; he identifies himself, and his nature, and his right, by putting us to our knees; he certifies himself to us, to our joy, as men have always done, by taking from us the pretenses of our freedom; we find our fulfillment in our surrender, and submission. |
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| 3 | 697 | I tried to struggle against these thoughts, but they forced themselves upon me. |
| 3 | 698 | I could not help myself. |
| 3 | 699 | Where was I, what insights was I now privy to, what strange emotions, and troubling uneasinesses, now raged in my body; what was going on within me; what had become of me? Something spoke within me which lay deeper than the encrustations of cultures. |
| 3 | 700 | He gestures, I thought, and we yield; he commands, and we obey; he proves himself to us by our conquest and subjugation; he identifies himself, and his nature, and his right, by putting us to our knees; he certifies himself to us, to our joy, as men have always done, by taking from us the pretenses of our freedom; we find our fulfillment in our surrender, and submission. |
| 3 | 701 | We wish to serve him choicelessly, as he will have it; it is he whom we desire to fear and love. |
| 3 | 702 | Away with such thoughts I thought. |
| 3 | 703 | They are too deep, too real! But what if one should think them, and what if one should live them! I did not know what to do, or think. |