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| 13 | 295 | I View more quotes about wonder">wonder if that is hard for you to understand. |
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| 13 | 292 | Let some, then, of the beauties of Torcadino rejoice that they were not yet in collars. |
| 13 | 293 | Still I doubted that many, if any, would escape. |
| 13 | 294 | One might point out, in passing, that not only for all practical purposes is escape impossible for a Gorean female slave, but, interestingly, few desire it. |
| 13 | 295 | I wonder if that is hard for you to understand. |
| 13 | 296 | The secret to happiness is doubtless illusive, but for the human female at least it does not require freedom. |
| 13 | 297 | Indeed, happiness for a human female often involves the willing surrender of freedom in order to achieve things which are of greater value and importance to her. |
| 13 | 298 | For example, she desires to belong, and the fullness of belonging is to be literally owned; she desires to be treasured, and to be a treasure one must be a possession; she desires to be wanted, and there is no mistaking the wanting of her, when she is so wanted that she is forcefully and categorically claimed, even as a slave; and she wants to serve, and how can one more fully serve than in the condition of servitude itself; and she wants to please, and as a slave she is free to do so, and must do so; and she wants to love, and love is the meaning and destiny of the female slave; it is that for which she lives; and she wants the man to be strong with her, audacious, powerful, and commanding, and thus she longs for a master. |