Book 26. (1 results) Witness of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 8 | 537 | But I did not View more quotes about think">think that human beings were one-dimensional or hollow, even those who spoke in such a fashion. |
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Book 26. (7 results) Witness of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 8 | 534 | But how tiresome it had been, and how frustrating, pretending to be only a surface, with no interior, no inner reality. |
| 8 | 535 | Were those who preached such stupidities, I wondered, only such a thing themselves, a one-dimensional surface, or were they simply lying. |
| 8 | 536 | Could there be very different sorts of human beings? Were some, in effect, hollow? If so, perhaps it was natural for them to suppose that others must be as empty as they. |
| 8 | 537 | But I did not think that human beings were one-dimensional or hollow, even those who spoke in such a fashion. |
| 8 | 538 | I thought that we were all very real. |
| 8 | 539 | Some of us, however, might fear to inquire into this reality. |
| 8 | 540 | Some of us might feel it was safer to pretend it did not exist, to deny it. |
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But how tiresome it had been, and how frustrating, pretending to be only a surface, with no interior, no inner reality.
Were those who preached such stupidities, I wondered, only such a thing themselves, a one-dimensional surface, or were they simply lying.
Could there be very different sorts of human beings? Were some, in effect, hollow? If so, perhaps it was natural for them to suppose that others must be as empty as they.
But I did not think that human beings were one-dimensional or hollow, even those who spoke in such a fashion.
I thought that we were all very real.
Some of us, however, might fear to inquire into this reality.
Some of us might feel it was safer to pretend it did not exist, to deny it.
- (Witness of Gor)