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| 11 | 853 | To be View more quotes about sure">sure, I had emerged as something real, not mythical, something which found itself in a very real world, a world in which I learned I was a certain sort of thing, vulnerable, precious and beautiful, and not at all the same as certain other sorts of things which were quite as real as I, and the world, but quite different, as well. |
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| 11 | 850 | What then could I do? What then would I be? I had learned in the pens that I had an unusual potentiality for vitality, that somehow beneath the encrustations of a subtle, pervasive, insidious conditioning program, one to which I had been mercilessly subjected from childhood on, beneath, and in spite of, all the antibiological values, all the instilled inhibitions, reservations, hesitations and guilts, there lurked a primitive, powerful, natural, healthy responsiveness. |
| 11 | 851 | This conditioning program, and its effects, now, bit by bit, fragment by shattered fragment, had been broken away from me. |
| 11 | 852 | In its ruins I had emerged, like a beautiful thing, innocent from the sea. |
| 11 | 853 | To be sure, I had emerged as something real, not mythical, something which found itself in a very real world, a world in which I learned I was a certain sort of thing, vulnerable, precious and beautiful, and not at all the same as certain other sorts of things which were quite as real as I, and the world, but quite different, as well. |
| 11 | 854 | "How worthless she is!" said Dorna. |
| 11 | 855 | "Not altogether," said a man. |
| 11 | 856 | There was laughter. |