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| 8 | 247 | What beasts are men, what commandeering, controlling, imperious beasts! But I did not View more quotes about mind">mind. |
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| 8 | 244 | There had been that much of my old world left in me at that time. |
| 8 | 245 | But now I felt gratitude. |
| 8 | 246 | To be sure I was clearly dressed for the pleasure of men. |
| 8 | 247 | What beasts are men, what commandeering, controlling, imperious beasts! But I did not mind. |
| 8 | 248 | I was suddenly pleased to be beautiful, and to have my beauty displayed. |
| 8 | 249 | If one is beautiful, why should one not be proud of it? Even if men force one, for their pleasure, to show it! And are we not pleased to be so displayed, to be seen as they will have us seen? Are we not then in the order of nature, as men will have us? Must one hide one's beauty because of the envy of the ugly? But here, I thought, men would not permit one to do so, even if one wished. |
| 8 | 250 | But what beautiful woman would wish to do so? I was pleased now, even brazenly so, to be beautiful. |