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Book 1. (9 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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8 28 Talena seemed startled that I had asked for her freedom.
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8 118 She walked about in the glade, pleased with herself, and twirled once or twice, delighted with the comparative freedom of movement she now enjoyed.
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12 164 And would it not also depend on how deep the bite of freedom had been felt by the bird, how ready he would be to be controlled once more by man? With my spear I could kill him, but that would not rescue me from the ledge.
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13 39 For whatever reason, the larl will always prefer ruining a hunt, even one involving a quarry of several animals, to allowing a given animal to move past it to freedom.
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13 71 Accordingly, the Afflicted enjoy a large amount of freedom of movement on Gor.
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18 41 I was not, of course, concerned with facilitating the entry of Pa-Kur's tarnsmen, who, as far as I knew, did not even constitute a portion of the garrison force, but I was concerned with opening the sky over the city in case I, and others, might be able to utilize it as a road to freedom.
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19 22 He had brought his tarn to flight and was descending to the streets below to rally the dispirited citizens of Ar, to call them again to arms, to challenge them to renounce the treacherous authority of the self-seeking Initiates, to strike again their blow for freedom, to die rather than yield their ...
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19 68 "Men of Ar," I cried, "listen! Even now, in the streets below, Marlenus, your Ubar, fights for the freedom of Ar!" The men of Ar looked at one another.
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19 70 "Are you truly the men of never-conquered, imperishable Ar? Or are you but slaves who will exchange your freedom for the collar of Pa-Kur?" "Down with the Initiates!" cried one man, drawing his sword.
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Book 2. (19 results) Outlaw of Gor

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6 34 Indeed, in Ko-ro-ba, a woman might even leave her quarters without first obtaining the permission of a male relative or the Free Companion, a freedom which was unusual on Gor.
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10 22 In all likelihood three spears would have transfixed my body within my first few steps toward freedom.
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13 160 Had I won my freedom? Was it thus in the Amusements of Tharna? Or had the fierce, proud Tatrix now recognized the cruelty of the Amusements? Had that heart hidden in those cold, glistening robes of unfeeling gold at last relented, shown itself to be susceptible of compassion? Or had the call of just...
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14 14 I rejoiced in this new freedom, in the absence of the yoke, though I knew it was given to me only in order to improve the spectacle.
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15 71 I did not think I would be able to work any reform in her harsh ways, but I did hope to sue for the freedom of Linna and Andreas, and perhaps for that of the poor wretches whom I had met in the arena.
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15 186 "Give me my freedom," she begged.
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15 192 "And you ask for your freedom!" "I will pay you a thousand times what I would bring on the block at Ar," she pleaded.
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15 200 "Alas," she cried, "not even I can do that, but I can free your friends! I will free them! My freedom for theirs!" I appeared to think the matter over.
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15 206 "Yes," she laughed, "my freedom for theirs!" "It is not enough," I growled.
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16 36 "A saddle, weapons, money, supplies, such things," I answered, "and the freedom of Linna of Tharna, Andreas of Tor, and those who fought this afternoon in the Amusements of Tharna".
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18 87 "Tomorrow night," I said simply, looking in Ost's direction, "we will make our break for freedom".
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19 53 To my pride none of the men suggested that we follow them, none begged that we might steal our freedom before the general alarm could be given.
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19 54 No! We climbed to the second mine! How terrible those moments for the guards and Whip Slaves, to suddenly see, unchained and irresistible, the avalanche of wrath and vengeance that broke in upon them! Dice and cards and game boards and drinking goblets scattered to the rocky floors of the guard cham...
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19 88 You must carry your freedom to others!" "Are you asking us to become warriors?" cried a voice.
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22 63 "To barter you for the freedom of my friends," I said.
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23 119 On the wall itself over the gate in huge letters there was scrawled the legend "Sa'ng-Fori," literally "Without Chains," but perhaps better translated simply as "Freedom" or "Liberty".
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23 217 It was he who had been first on the chain in the mines, he who had of necessity been first to climb the shaft from the slave kennel to freedom.
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24 35 Even the foul Kal-da to them, reveling in the first intoxication of their freedom, was the rarest and most potent of beverages.
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24 121 You fought for your pride and your freedom, not against that girl".
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Book 3. (8 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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1 100 He had won his freedom though it had, as the Goreans say, led him to the Cities of Dust, where, I think, not even Priest-Kings care to follow.
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5 235 "In the meantime," I said, "I grant you freedom".
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9 61 "How often would a bred slave have a chance of freedom?" "Seldom indeed," I admitted.
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17 38 "My freedom," I said, "the restoration of the City of Ko-ro-ba, the safety of its people—to see my father again, my friends, my Free Companion".
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25 18 I smiled to myself, for I could always tell her, and truthfully, that having saved her life she was now mine by Gorean law, so brief had been her freedom, and that it was up to me to determine the extent and nature of her clothing, and, indeed, whether or not she would be allowed clothing at all.
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30 17 I recalled the man from Ar, met on the lonely road to Ko-ro-ba long ago, who like a robot had been forced to obey the signals of Priest-Kings until at last he had tried to throw over the net, and its overload had burned away the insides of his skull, giving him at last the freedom of his own mortal ...
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30 86 Whereas I would not have abandoned Misk and freedom to join the forces of Sarm, I was forced to admit that the probable victory in the end would be his, and that his proposals might well be attractive to some former Muls, particularly those who had occupied a position of some importance in the Nest ...
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30 169 As the War continued I became more and more impressed with the loyalty and courage of the men and women serving Misk, who for a bit of fungus and water and freedom were willing to sell their lives in one of the strangest conflicts ever fought by men, boldly serving one of the most unusual causes tha...
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Book 4. (11 results) Nomads of Gor

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2 20 "Freedom without reason is suicide," had said the Priest-King, adding, "Man is not yet rational".
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9 481 Moreover, to avoid legal complications and free the assets for investment and manipulation, the transfer is asymmetrical, in the sense that the individual, even should he somehow later recover his freedom, retains no legal claim whatsoever on the transferred assets.
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10 123 What good would that information do her? It might make her own bondage seem more cruel, or perhaps fill her with foolish hopes that Kamchak, her master, might someday bestow on her the same beautiful gift of freedom.
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11 50 "Is it my understanding," asked Saphrar, the golden drops over his eyes rising, "that you would—upon reaching your majority—transfer your entire fortunes to a Tuchuk, merely to obtain your freedom".
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24 47 He professed a cruel hatred of Turia and Turians, and yet he had, considering the normal practices of the Wagon Peoples, not noted for their mercy to helpless foes, treated the unarmed citizens of the city with unique indulgence, permitting them, on the whole, to keep their lives and freedom, though...
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25 195 "Let us celebrate your freedom," I said, pouring her a small bowl of wine.
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25 275 The institution of freedom for women, I decided, as many Goreans believed, was a mistake.
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25 603 "The stakes," she pronounced, "will be my freedom against—" "Yes?" I asked.
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25 874 "Enough of this nonsense about freedom," I said.
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27 13 Few it seemed to me, surprisingly perhaps, much objected to leaving the luxurious delights of the gardens of Saphrar for the freedom of the winds and prairies, the dust, the smell of bosk, the collar of a man who would master them utterly but before whom they would stand as human shes, individual, e...
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27 44 It was only at that time, as he held court in the palace of Phanius Turmus, that I realized he would permit the city its freedom, and its soul.
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Book 5. (24 results) Assassin of Gor

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15 110 It was not known if he had been originally slave or not, but had he been he surely would have won his freedom ten times over and more; again and again, even after he would have won his freedom had he first been slave, he returned to the sand of the arena, steel in hand; I supposed it might be the go...
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5 221 He is permitted complete freedom of movement by these bands, which are rather like bracelets and anklets.
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5 473 "Earth owes its freedom to Priest-Kings.
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13 61 "Look," I said, pointing to the far end of the curving pool, some hundred and fifty yards away, "if I do not catch you before you reach the edge you will have your freedom for the day".
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13 68 "Then," I said, "you will have your freedom for a day".
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13 86 At that point, looking back once more, and noting that I was still moving quickly toward her, and not willing to lose a possible rare day's freedom, she began, with the marvelous, strong trained stroke of her legs and arms, to slice swiftly through the water.
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13 102 "It seems you have lost your freedom for the day," I said.
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13 239 Many of the perches were empty, but there were more than a hundred birds in the room; each was now chained to its area of the perch; but each, I knew, at least once in every two days, was exercised; sometimes, when men do not wander freely in the cot, and the portals of the cot, opening to the sky, ...
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14 65 I have much freedom.
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14 106 I had, for most practical purposes, the freedom of the house.
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15 218 Later, when the girls became reasonably proficient at Gorean, they were permitted the freedom of the House baths, which they enjoyed, and the liberty to move about the House rather as they pleased, saving that they must be locked in their cells by the eighteenth bar.
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17 157 Condemned criminals and men of low caste, fighting for gold or freedom in the arena, he treated with the harsh courtesies obtaining among sword brothers.
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17 239 Elizabeth, predictably, did not care to leave without me, but she recognized the plan as a good one; if she could be independently removed from the House there would be less for Caprus and me to worry about; further, she naturally wished Virginia and Phyllis to have the same opportunity for freedom ...
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17 245 It would be a fine surprise for them later to discover that they were actually being whisked to safety and freedom.
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17 691 "He was once a slave," said Sura, "but he won his freedom at hook knife.
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17 818 "He won his freedom at hook knife," I reminded her.
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18 530 "I understand she expects, with the other two barbarians, to be purchased by an agent of Priest-Kings, and carried to safety and freedom".
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19 95 I felt rage and sorrow, rage at the twisting of events, the brilliance of my enemies, my own failures, and sorrow for Elizabeth, and the other girls; for Elizabeth in particular my heart cried out, for her hopes would be so cruelly dashed; she might not even discover that she was not on her way to s...
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19 447 Doubtless Elizabeth thought Samos the agent of Priest-Kings, sent to purchase them and carry them to safety and freedom.
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20 174 "I am concerned," continued Cernus, "to be fair in all matters and thus propose that we wager for your freedom".
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20 184 "Would you like to play for your freedom?" "Of course," I said.
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22 160 Already he permitted his bird freedom of the reins.
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24 256 I kissed her, she joyful in her freedom.
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24 483 "Write on the papers," said I, "that on this first day of the restoration of Marlenus of Ar, the slave Vella was by her master, Tarl of Ko-ro-ba, granted her freedom".
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Book 6. (18 results) Raiders of Gor

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2 16 She wore a brief, sleeveless garment of yellowish-brown rence cloth; it was worn well away from both shoulders to permit her freedom of movement; the brief skirt had been hitched up about her thighs that it might in no way bind her in her hunting.
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3 295 How could I face myself, or anyone? I had chosen ignominious bondage to the freedom of honorable death.
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3 301 I had chosen ignominious bondage to the freedom of honorable death.
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3 307 How straight she stood, each inch of her body alive and splendid in her vigor and freedom.
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4 14 I knew her to be barefoot behind me, in the brief-skirted tunic of yellowish-brown rence cloth, cut away at the shoulders to give her freedom of movement.
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4 78 I had chosen ignominious bondage to the freedom of honorable death.
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4 289 She wore her swiftness, and her freedom, and an armlet of gold.
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8 160 I knew myself for one who had chosen ignominious slavery over the freedom of honorable death.
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8 169 My last thought before the sweet darkness of sleep was the remembrance that I was one who had chosen ignominious slavery to the freedom of honorable death, and that I was alone.
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8 338 I had chosen ignominious slavery over the freedom of honorable death.
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8 725 If not, they will guide you to freedom, away from Port Kar".
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9 70 And it was in this city, now mine, that I belonged, I who had lost myself, who had chosen ignominious slavery to the freedom of honorable death.
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17 60 Each was rowed either by citizens of Port Kar or by eager slaves, armed and unchained, that they might, if they chose, fight for their freedom and the Home Stone of a city.
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18 396 We had the freedom of the city, though guards would accompany us to protect us".
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18 412 These other girls, some of them rence girls themselves, would often beat me, for they knew what freedom I had had in the house, and they knew, as was true, that I had regarded myself as far superior to such as they, only common girls, simple merchandise.
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18 675 "I can pay for my freedom".
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18 757 Looking down into Telima's eyes I told her, "In two days, when I free Sandra from the treasure room, I am going to give her her freedom and gold, that she may go where she wishes and do what she pleases".
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18 896 "You chose," said Samos, "as warriors have it, ignominious bondage over the freedom of honorable death".
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Book 7. (9 results) Captive of Gor

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7 269 How I envied them their freedom, unchained, to run and laugh and walk as they pleased.
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11 1015 How fearful! I feared I might become such that I would not for the world relinquish my condition, my state, my bondage, that my bondage would become more precious to me by far than my freedom had ever been.
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11 1152 They, though as slave as I, had escaped; I had not; I had been captured, and, by Gorean men, would be forced to pay my price! I had no hope of freedom.
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12 451 One wagon at a time, for a given interval, Targo permitted his girls, in wagon sets, to enjoy freedom of movement.
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14 99 After I had been washed and combed, and fed, Ena had said to me, "You have the freedom of the camp, if you wish".
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14 395 They professed to approve of this degradation appropriately inflicted on mere slaves, but it was also said that they envied the slaves, the lightness of their garments, the air upon their bodies, the wonderful freedom accorded their limbs, so different from the heavy, bulky, confining layers of thei...
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15 124 Girls locked within this shed would not tunnel their way to freedom.
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15 1179 How I envied her her freedom, her beauty, her pride, and even the simple opacity of the brief garment she wore.
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18 47 I knew that I was one who had once chosen ignominious slavery over the freedom of honorable death.
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Book 8. (12 results) Hunters of Gor

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1 99 I recalled, angrily, with a burning shame, the delta of the Vosk, when I, though of the Warriors, once, on my knees, begged the ignominy of slavery to the freedom of honorable death.
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1 363 I tossed him the pouch of gold, from which I had drawn the coins to purchase his freedom, and the arrogant, slender, red-silked girl for him, to be his slave.
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5 124 They know in their hearts that they are truly slave, and will remain so, unless it might please their master to grant them freedom.
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6 1002 She, noble creature, so marvelous in her temptations and beauties, with the excellences of her mind and the determined prides of her heart, how strange that she, so much prizing her freedom, is made whole only as it is ruthlessly swept from her, that the true totality of her response, the fullness o...
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9 137 "In it," said Verna, "she begged that he purchase her freedom".
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21 73 "I do not grant you freedom," he said.
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22 293 "It is called freedom," she said.
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22 458 "I would not have minded much," said she, "if he had given me to you, as your slave!" "You have well earned your freedom, wench," said Turus.
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22 712 Female freedom, of a full sort, would not have been biologically practical.
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22 740 She would have her freedom.
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22 749 She would never forget, in her freedom, nor did she wish to do so, that she had been once his utter slave.
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22 769 Doubtless now, alone, somewhere within the forest, in freedom and solitude, there was a panther girl.
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Book 9. (9 results) Marauders of Gor

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1 41 I expect she was pleased at the authority, and the trust and freedom, which I accorded her.
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1 106 There, merely to save his miserable life, he had chosen ignominious slavery to the freedom of honorable death.
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1 111 But this Bosk, forcing his mistress, the beautiful Telima, to grant him his freedom, had come to Port Kar, bringing her with him as his slave, and had there, after many adventures, earned riches and fame, and the title even of Admiral of Port Kar.
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1 122 Earlier he had disowned his daughter, Talena, for she had sued for her freedom, a slave's act.
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1 186 The morality of slaves reduces all to bondage; the morality of masters encourages all to attain, if they can, the heights of freedom.
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1 308 "In the forest," I said, "it is my understanding that you sued for your freedom, begging in a missive that your father purchase you".
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4 154 She now saw the men of Torvaldsland in their mightiness, in their freedom, and strength and power, and she, a stripped, fettered bondmaid, coffled, feared them.
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10 375 In the lowering of the woman, of course, a common consequence of her helplessness in the arms of a powerful male, her surrendering, her being forced to submit, she finds, incredibly to some perhaps, her freedom, her ecstasy, her fulfillment, her exaltation, her joy; in the Gorean mind this matter is...
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21 231 You gave, on the coast of Thassa, freedom, and life, to me and my men.
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Book 10. (10 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 298 Passion, it is thought, deprives the free woman to some extent of her freedom and self-control; it is frowned upon because it makes her behave, to some extent, like a degraded female slave; free women, thus, to protect their honor and dignity, their freedom and personhood, their individuality, must ...
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2 159 For example, it is common for a master to force his girl to speak at length and in detail to him of the secret sides of her nature, explaining and elaborating on her fantasies; if she is literate, she may be forced, naked, collared, on her knees at a small table, sometimes with her ankles shackled, ...
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5 722 Would Talena not have cut her throat, under the metal collar? And had I freed her would she not, soon, have fallen again to a man's collar? Her flight from the Sardar had not won her freedom.
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17 93 His then would be the fearful burdens of autonomy, of freedom.
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18 8 "What would you have?" "My freedom," said I, "and water".
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18 17 "I ask freedom and water".
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18 20 "I, too, ask freedom and water.
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24 476 Although we kneel and wear our collars, I think sometimes that we in our bondage are the free, and they, in their pride, and freedom, and in their slippers, and layers of brocade, are the slave".
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25 361 No girl who has not been a slave can understand the joy of it, the profundity and freedom.
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26 313 When Talena, the daughter of Marlenus of Ar, Ubar of Ar, had, in a missive to him, begged her freedom, he had, on his sword and on the medallion of Ar, sworn against her the oath of disownment.
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Book 11. (31 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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4 1033 It was not the freedom of convention I then felt but the freedom of nature, not the freedom to be what I was not, which had been prescribed to me, but the freedom rather to be what I was, which, for complex social and historical reasons, had been long denied to me; it was not the freedom of politica...
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20 584 Surely I must win my freedom! How terrifying to be what I was, a slave! I was in a collar! I was owned! Was this not horrifying, that I might be silked, or stripped, or bound, that I must serve without question, and in all ways? They must free me! I must be freed! I must have my freedom! I deserved ...
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2 787 But, as I followed the man, trekking through the glorious grass, under the bright, marvelous moons, carrying his shield, literally heeling him, as might have an animal, his captive, nude and bound, I felt, paradoxically, a fantastic sense of freedom, of psychological liberation.
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4 823 When they discovered the mark, worn by a girl masquerading as one of their own lofty station, a woman free, would they not in fury, with whips, drive me stripped, begging for mercy, weeping, to the waiting shackles of the men? What escape, what freedom, could there be for a girl who wore a brand? I ...
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4 1030 This truth, much fought and feared, long denied, accepted, burst upon me with a blaze of freedom.
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4 1032 I, though helpless, hooded, in the arms of the beasts who ravished me, had experienced, exhilarated, an incredible sense of freedom, of liberation.
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5 8 Then, one after the other, she added the freedom veil, or veil of the citizeness, the pride veil, the house veil, and street veil.
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6 59 Oddly enough, in learning my slavery, I was experiencing an incredible sense of psychological freedom and liberation.
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6 184 His companion, I supposed, was no longer attractive to him, or, perhaps, in the prides of her freedom, was too remote to be much in his attention.
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7 396 One's freedom is small enough price to pay, whisper some highborn women of Ar among themselves, for even ten days in the collar of Clitus Vitellius.
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7 397 The boredoms of freedom are small enough price to pay surely for even a brief sojourn in the arms of such a man, they conjecture.
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7 856 We would have won our freedom from their aggressions.
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7 1402 It is said, in a Gorean proverb, that a man, in his heart, desires freedom, and that a woman, in her belly, yearns for love.
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9 742 He preferred larger, wider hipped, larger breasted women than I, more of the sort that Melina might have been at one time, before, in her freedom, she had gone slack and fat.
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9 2220 My freedom blinded me to your manhood and your worth.
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18 134 Freedom and love are both estimable values.
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18 135 Some women choose freedom; others choose love.
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20 579 Suddenly it had occurred to me that I could become free! When again might such an opportunity present itself? I was from Earth! Surely I was not so contemptible and despicable that I cared to remain a slave! Surely it was wrong that a collar should be on me! Perhaps on others, but not on me! Not on ...
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20 585 Too, of course, if Clitus Vitellius should somehow regain his freedom, unlikely though that might be, I had little doubt that he would remember the girl who had betrayed him.
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20 621 What a fool I had been to beg my freedom.
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21 33 I loved him! I should have served him in the tavern, and then kissed him farewell, surrendering him to his glory and freedom, I remaining behind, forgotten, a girl whom once he had owned and discarded.
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22 64 I was permitted the freedom of the ship.
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22 68 A slave girl, one who truly serves men, has often much freedom.
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22 69 Since they have everything, and anything, they want from her, and she is complete slave, and they total master, there is no struggle between them; she, accordingly, in a strange way, is prized and treasured; how many women of Earth, I wonder, are prized and treasured by their men; one can prize and ...
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22 402 "My freedom, my station," she said, "puts me above the risk of such indignities".
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24 67 Those rejected must surely have mixed feelings about this matter, about their rejection, and their being cast back to freedom, unwanted, just as those in their chains, too, must have mixed feelings, looking at the shackles on their fair limbs.
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26 14 Too, I relished its freedom, and its attractiveness, and its meaning.
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26 306 "I will buy my freedom!" she cried.
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29 142 A woman, I had learned, must choose between freedom and love.
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29 195 "Beg for your freedom," he said.
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29 233 "It is an indication of your vitality and health, and emotional freedom," he said.
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Book 12. (23 results) Beasts of Gor

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3 1201 Purchased by a rich man might they not then have an easier bondage, perhaps in a great house, even in a mansion or palace; might they not then have lighter labors, a jeweled collar, exciting, beautiful silks, greater freedom to wander about by day, almost as though free, delighted and zestul, though...
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6 505 How shamed she was, she only a naked, collared slave, before the freedom and grandeur of the free woman.
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6 630 "I acknowledge that in the generosity of my freedom.
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9 226 Even slave children, incidentally, are seldom abused or treated poorly, and are given much freedom, until they reach their young adulthood.
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9 242 Too, as a simple matter of anthropological observation, freedom, however estimable it may be if abstractly considered, certainly does not guarantee happiness nor is it necessary to happiness.
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9 243 This is not to deny the value of freedom, which is surely precious.
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9 245 Freedom is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for happiness.
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9 254 How is it, they wonder, that beauties in tunics and collars, are obviously so much happier than they? And how is it that the beauties seem to prize the very tokens of their bondage, the bracelets, the collars, the lovely, revealing tunics, and such, considered so degrading by, and yet exercising suc...
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10 237 It is warm, light in weight, and permits great freedom of movement.
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10 366 Some four more tabuk, as though sensing freedom, trotted past.
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11 506 I recalled how she had responded when, before I had won my freedom, I had informed her that the red hunters might starve, if the tabuk were not permitted to continue their northward migration.
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12 343 At the end of the cairns, of course, they turn about, milling, and many are slain, until some, wiser or more panic-stricken than others, break loose and, nostrils wide, snorting, trot to freedom and the moss of the open tundra.
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15 107 His little slave was forced to compensate him well, indeed, a thousandfold and more, for the frustrating years of her freedom and arrogance.
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15 116 Freedom permits a woman to live without men.
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15 122 She is no longer free; her freedom is gone; she is now only an ignited slave.
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15 358 "He encouraged me to try to resist him, that I might keep my pride and freedom".
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15 489 But the freedom of a former slave girl is always a somewhat tenuous thing.
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15 561 "It is strange," she said, "we have talked of freedom, of liberation.
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15 568 "True freedom," she said, "is to follow one's own nature".
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24 155 Its price is your freedom.
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27 284 Even had it been my intention to punish her, which it had not been, I think she might well have won her freedom from punishment by the diligent and incredible merits of her helpless slave service.
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35 250 Each color permits a girl a different amount of freedom in the tracks".
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35 265 The maximum amount of freedom is enjoyed by a girl who wears a collar with two red bands".
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Book 13. (10 results) Explorers of Gor

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4 185 I did not think she would need be worried much longer about her freedom.
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5 144 Doubtless she would have begged piteously for her freedom.
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5 590 A girl with pierced ears on Gor might as well, for all practical purposes, give up even the slimmest of hopes, should she entertain them, of freedom.
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5 716 What a naive slave she was, doubtless still priding herself on her freedom.
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13 661 "Surely now," I said, "you would choose freedom".
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13 666 "Is not freedom inordinately precious?" I asked.
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18 141 I was later supposed to receive a hundred tarns of gold and my freedom.
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27 245 If you should be a female, and are reading this, and should be so unfortunate as to be taken to Gor as a slave, do not hope for freedom; rather learn your lessons swiftly and well, and resign yourself to the service of masters; fight your collar, if you wish, but in the end it will do you no good; y...
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34 365 Never in the constrictions of my freedom could I have understood such experiences to exist as I have felt on this world as a lowly slave.
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34 733 "The sense, or one of the senses, in which you are free," I said, "is the sense of emotional freedom.
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Book 14. (22 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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1 705 "It is a freedom".
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1 721 "It is called academic freedom".
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1 798 How strange it then seemed to me that society should ever have developed in such a way that such delicious and desirable creatures should have ever been permitted their freedom.
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1 1073 Gone then was the illusion of her freedom and independence, and her arrogance and pride.
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4 14 It has spoiled them for freedom.
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7 84 I cannot bring myself, truly, to deplore the exuberance, the joy, the vigor and freedom that is Gor.
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7 453 There are different senses of freedom, of course.
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7 456 Freedom in some abstract, or political, sense is clearly not essential to the happiness of a woman.
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7 763 "That is called freedom?" she asked.
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12 9 Indeed, among most Gorean garments, with their simplicity, their flowing lines, the freedom allowed for movement, my own garments seemed rigid, confining, frightened, unimaginative and boorish.
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12 58 He thought himself attempting to escape to freedom, abetted by a woman of his own world, which role was played by the lovely Lady Tendite".
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18 89 "She is, for all her wealth and freedom," he said, "only a woman".
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19 146 She is no longer capable of freedom, nor does she desire it.
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19 417 "What are these conditions under which she is to be granted movement and freedom of observation?" I inquired.
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25 306 We had, thus, far less freedom of movement than is commonly accorded to females.
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30 77 "Let me negotiate for my freedom," she said.
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32 48 "If you were an understanding, refined sort," she said, "and I more fully free, I might beg to attempt to earn my freedom, by the performance of intimate services for you".
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32 69 "That I might earn my freedom?" she asked.
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32 191 Nor is there any reason they should; they are not free women, inert and ignorant, jealous of their freedom, determined to retain their personal sovereignty under any and all conditions, women occasionally, one supposes bravely and nobly, submitting to, resignedly enduring, the boredoms of perfunctor...
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32 192 Rather they are slaves, and will be well ravished, and when the master is through with them they will have no illusions of freedom or sovereignty; they will know that they are truly in their collars.
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32 349 "You cannot sell me," she said, "not after last night! I served you well! How you used me! How I served! Did I not earn my freedom? You did that to me, and I, after yielding all, and finding myself yours as I was, so helpless, so ravished, after all I gave you, after all you took from me, you will s...
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33 37 "Do you not now wish, again, to beg me piteously for your freedom?" "No, Master," she said.
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Book 15. (14 results) Rogue of Gor

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3 186 "The men of Ar," she said, "took my freedom from me, when they made me a prisoner.
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3 187 You have taken my freedom from me, when you forced me to yield—as—as a female slave".
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10 89 "I will give you what your heart most desires, your total liberation and freedom!" She looked at me, aghast.
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11 155 "A woman such as I, on Gor," she laughed, "has no hope of freedom".
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11 182 "Is not freedom precious?" I asked.
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13 159 "I do not deny you your freedom," I said.
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14 338 "I have given you freedom.
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15 200 "Rejoice in your freedom," I told her.
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23 175 True freedom and happiness, perhaps, lies not in denying and repudiating our nature but in fulfilling it.
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28 202 Her true bondage, she then realizes, had been that of the free woman, and she now realizes her true freedom, that of the slave.
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30 226 Had I been able to see her then as I was now enabled, by my Gorean experience, to see her now, I would have been able to see instantly through the trappings of her freedom to the slave beneath.
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31 16 These arrangements represent what is theoretically an optimum compromise between prisoner security and the degree of freedom essential to efficiently operate the windlass.
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32 154 "Do not slay him, Kliomenes," said one of the men near the curule chair, "for he might be of use in bargaining for the freedom of the true courier of Ragnar Voskjard, who must have been captured by our enemies in Victoria".
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33 54 Doubtless she revealed our plans to the courier of Ragnar Voskjard, or to a pirate in Tasdron's tavern, perhaps while moaning with pleasure in his arms, perhaps hoping to win her freedom by her treachery".
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Book 16. (9 results) Guardsman of Gor

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21 446 "I love it!" I knew that that was so, and that she would revel in this, the name connecting, in its way, the frustrated, petulant Miss Beverly Henderson of Earth in the bondage of her freedom with the collared slave of Gor in the freedom of her bondage.
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9 230 I had little doubt that if I were but once taken into companionship by him I should be sequestered, and left untouched, that that would be my punishment for having shamed him; he would keep me as his official 'companion,' but he would not so much as put his hands on me; I would be forced to endure h...
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18 418 She revels in this new-found freedom; she exults in the bold appraisals to which she now finds herself subjected, those which free men may fittingly bestow upon a slave; she inclines her head submissively as she passes free men; should they stop her, perhaps to question her, or inquire after directi...
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19 19 Among them, however, would seem to be a jealousy of the female slave's desirability and beauty, a resentment of the interest of free men in embonded women, and an envy of the slave girl's psychological and biological fulfillments, and emotional freedom and joy.
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19 377 The slave girl, it might be mentioned, in connection with the "releasing effects" of the collar, is relieved of many social pressures to which the free woman, because of her freedom, must remain subject.
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19 401 Knowing herself as an owned animal, rightless, one forced to submit, one who must obey in all things, who must yield wholly to the master, holding nothing back, she can be driven to almost excruciatingly ecstatic orgasmic heights, experiencing sensations and raptures, perhaps enforced cruelly upon h...
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19 698 "Freedom," she said, "respect, honor, dignity".
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20 1581 Most enjoy great freedom, at least in many ways.
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20 1591 Indeed, they have a great deal more freedom, in some ways, than the exalted Gorean free women.
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Book 17. (11 results) Savages of Gor

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13 577 "Do they not speak much of freedom?" "The freedom they speak of is to be like them, and do as they demand".
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2 365 Male slaves, from time to time, can receive opportunities to win their freedom, though, to be sure, usually in situations of high risk and great danger.
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2 368 If she is to receive her freedom it will be fully and totally, and only, by the decision of her master.
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8 157 She was a barbarian, her freedom only recently terminated.
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8 698 Women on this world, most of them, enjoy a status and freedom of which you, from Earth, cannot even conceive.
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13 579 "Without such freedom," I said, "tyrannies would be impossible".
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13 618 "Miss Millicent Aubrey-Welles," I said, "in her freedom, had no monetary value.
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13 1034 "Here, on Gor," I told her, "your station, your status, your class, your prestige, are gone, taken with your name and freedom.
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14 599 I myself prefer the application of such expressions not to slaves, but to pretentious free women, to remind them that they, in spite of their freedom, are only women.
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19 66 Too, he ripped it at the left side, to allow himself more freedom of movement.
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19 280 He had shortened it earlier, and torn it at the side, to permit himself more freedom of movement in it.
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Book 18. (12 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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34 267 "The only freedom I would now desire," said Mira, "would be the freedom to be totally a slave".
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1 377 Hci doubtless held Canka responsible, in some fashion, for Cuwignaka's freedom, and his presence among the Isbu, a presence which many among the Isbu, including Hci, found infuriating and shameful.
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3 344 In one sense, of course, the slave has no freedom whatsoever.
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4 12 Prior to that, even on the field of battle, weeks ago, he had shortened it, and ripped it at the left thigh, to give himself greater freedom of movement.
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12 666 "You have ruined me for freedom," she said.
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34 179 "I cannot believe such freedom," he said.
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34 180 "It is so different! It is glorious!" "It is your freedom, not hers," I said.
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34 266 "Do you not desire freedom?" asked the girl.
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34 364 They appreciate the freedom of movement which they permit and relish, too, the insolent exposure and display of their desirability and beauty to the bold appraisal of men.
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39 146 "Deceit is a freedom of free women," I said.
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39 147 "But it is not a freedom permitted to slave girls, is it, Master?" she asked.
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39 214 "If you are a free woman, speak your freedom and advance, now, to the headsman's block, or, if you are truly a slave, and have only been masquerading until now as a free woman, step now, if you wish, upon the mat of submission and kneel there, in this act becoming at last, explicitly, a legal slave"...
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Book 19. (23 results) Kajira of Gor

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3 513 "Slavery denies freedom!" I cried.
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3 514 "Your assertion seems to presuppose the desirability of universal freedom," she said.
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3 522 "Slavery denies freedom!" I reiterated.
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3 524 "It denies freedom!" I said.
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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 ...
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3 927 I saw that, again, she was answering me in the fashion in which, doubtless, I wished to be answered, doubtless with deference to my dignity, status or freedom.
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3 972 "A thousand times better a collar on Gor than freedom on Earth," she said.
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5 151 Where was my pride and freedom! "Let us see," insisted Ligurious, "what Claudius has sent us".
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27 189 The other side of the coin of freedom is bondage.
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29 26 Too, after the first week in the agency, in which we were kept in chains when not serving, we had received a great deal of freedom.
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29 29 Slave girls, generally, incidentally, enjoy a great deal of freedom.
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30 428 He had changed me, teaching me my true womanhood, ruining me forever for freedom.
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31 504 No longer, now, was she, in the prerogatives of freedom, permitted to give men nothing, or frustration; now she must serve them with perfection and provide them, to the best of her ability, at their merest whim, with fantastic pleasures.
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32 295 My pride, and my freedom, had kept me from him.
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33 47 Her days of freedom were then numbered.
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33 647 Similarly she was permitted to keep her freedom.
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33 651 Yes, her freedom had been removed, and, as mine—with perfection.
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33 880 His freedom was guaranteed.
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34 228 But what of you? Tomorrow you will have your freedom.
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35 124 How I had disappointed him! How far I had fallen short of his expectations, of his hopes, of his ideal of womanhood! I did not deserve honor, prestige, respect, dignity, freedom, a throne! I was only a slut.
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36 348 "I was protected by my freedom, my dignity, my status, my position and power!" "And where are such things now?" "Gone, Master".
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36 522 Few of them I thought would ever be so fortunate as to know the freedom, the fulfillment, the joy of the collar.
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36 523 Priding themselves on their freedom they were more slaves than slaves.
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Book 20. (11 results) Players of Gor

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1 125 "I demand my immediate freedom!" One of the slave girls, one kneeling a few feet away, before us and to our right, at a table, one of those who was naked, save for her collar, laughed.
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1 317 "My pretense to freedom was always a sham.
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2 83 Carnival, too, with its freedom and license, is often used by both men and women as a time for the initiation of affairs, and for arrangements and assignations, the partners often not even being known to one another.
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2 782 Freedom, with its inhibitions, inertnesses and hostilities, tends to produce a blockage to the emergence of the depth female.
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2 1628 "It must be a difficult choice for a woman," I said, "the choice between freedom and love".
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2 1664 "Do you think I might become a pleasing slave?" "You have generated a great deal of heat," I said, "even under the inhibitory, chilling condition of freedom.
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2 1703 To be sure, the choice between freedom and love is not an easy one for a woman.
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4 309 "If I permit you this service," she asked, "what would you wish in return?" "Perhaps Mistress might consider granting me freedom from her captivity," I suggested.
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6 37 If a great deal is being made of the freedom of the woman in the play, as is not unusual in many dramas and farces, the brand is sometimes covered, as with a small, circular adhesive patch.
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16 845 As soon as he had had her use, he had divested her of any tatters or remnants she might have thought she retained of her freedom.
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21 616 "You know you have spoiled me forever for freedom," she said.
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Book 21. (24 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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26 1230 Let me be rightfully marked, publicly and permanently, that men will know to rightfully deny me freedom, that they may never again make so foolish a mistake as to grant me freedom, and that all may know what I am, and only and rightfully am, a slave! I beg it!" I kissed her, gently.
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13 155 The days of her freedom, in a sense, were already gone.
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13 296 The secret to happiness is doubtless illusive, but for the human female at least it does not require freedom.
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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.
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13 299 Freedom is precious, but so, too, is love, and happiness.
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13 300 And who are we to gainsay them to a woman if she finds them in the collar? What is important to human happiness for the human female is not liberty in itself, but the freedom to be herself, and as she wants to be.
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15 90 "You may also, of course, have ruined her for freedom," he said.
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15 100 "Have you been spoiled for freedom?" he asked her.
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15 109 "You are my master! You have taught it to me! I have learned it in your arms, on your chain, under your lash! You have taken me and made me your female, your slave! Surely you know that I am now yours, as much as a sleen or a tarsk! In my heart I know you as my master, and want you as my master! Wha...
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15 130 Clearly, too, she had been "ruined for freedom".
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15 132 I wondered if she, too, had been ruined for freedom.
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15 137 "And so," asked the fellow, "what of your free tart? Did her rent uses spoil her for freedom?" "Perhaps," I said.
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15 395 "She had much freedom in the Cosian camp, given even her own quarters, in which the Polemarkos could call upon her.
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15 431 They will receive their freedom.
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18 75 The human female, incidentally, is an intensely sexual creature, but one subject in her alleged freedom to innumerable inhibitions, constraints, frustrations and denials.
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26 473 They envied them, interestingly, for their greater freedom, in its way, their emotional liberties, their honesty, their masters, their domination, their profound fulfillments, their radiance, their happiness.
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26 474 Too, it did not help that men, however inexplicably, seemed to care more for, and seek more avidly, and prize more highly, these lowly slaves, purchasable in markets, than themselves, in all their inestimable regalias of freedom and power.
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26 1231 "How could men make so foolish a mistake as to grant me freedom?" she wept.
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26 1454 "That would presumably be their last night of freedom".
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26 1647 And, too, she commonly loves the exposure of her tunic, and the glorious freedom of movement it gives her.
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26 1705 To be sure, the Gorean woman soon learns to do without her veil, and to delight in this new-found freedom, for example, in the freshness of the air upon her face, and the excitements that she now stirs in the hearts of masters.
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26 1839 "Do you not desire freedom?" I asked.
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26 1841 "I want slavery!" "Is freedom not precious?" I asked.
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27 74 The woman rejected for bondage, she returned in scorn to the lonely garbage of her freedom, is often inveterately impatient with, and unconscionably cruel toward, the female slave, even more so than is common with the ordinary querulous, contemptuous Gorean free woman.
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Book 22. (12 results) Dancer of Gor

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11 213 Her "legal freedom," we may speculate, would prove quite fleeting.
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11 1601 Indeed, some women try to carry the frigidities of their freedom into their bondage, but these are soon whipped out of them.
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16 66 "While you remain a slave, Earth slut," she said, "I will be free! And it is you, my pretty enemy, who will have bought me my freedom! Consider it, slut! Such vengeance is sweet!" I whimpered, piteously, looking up at Tupita.
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16 104 Not only do I have my vengeance upon you, delivering you to new slaveries and degradations, as it pleased me, but you have been also the means of my own escape and freedom".
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17 198 Their freedom, however, I did not doubt, would have proved fleeting, and soon they would have been distributed among the victors, or disposed of, for profit, in various slave markets.
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17 202 I loved the freedom, and liberation this gave me, to be a full woman.
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27 144 Could she believe what she had done, and said? How she had begged and squirmed, and acted not at all like a free woman, but like a slave? How she had behaved in his arms? How could she, a free woman, have acted like that? But perhaps she was not truly, ultimately, a free woman, as she had hitherto s...
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27 147 No longer could she find it in her heart to pretend to be free, to play again the role of a free woman, to enact once again what, in her case, could now be only a hollow mockery, an empty farce of freedom.
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29 1187 "We will give you your freedom, if you do so," said the bearded man.
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29 1226 "You promised me my freedom," I whispered.
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29 1229 "You promised me my freedom," I said.
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33 282 "Remember," he said, "that there is ultimately no freedom or escape for you on this world.
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Book 23. (25 results) Renegades of Gor

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4 51 By that time they will have been, in effect, "spoiled for freedom".
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6 552 "And would you then give me my freedom, as would others?" "The fools?" I asked.
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8 628 There is the wind, the sense of the beast, the speed, the movements, now in all dimensions, the climb, the dive, soaring, turning, all in the freedom of the sky! There is here, too, a oneness of man and beast.
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8 957 "Surely you desire to return to the splendors, and prides, of freedom?" I asked.
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8 962 The true mercy for women, of course, is not the barrenness of freedom, with its lies, but the whip and collar.
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9 102 "My freedom is now a mockery," she said.
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10 79 "Sirs," cried Klio, "soldiers of Cos, warriors for truth and justice, redressers of wrongs, kinsmen from across the sea, I am Lady Klio, of Telnus, of Cos! I am a free woman! I beg your kindness, your indulgence, your protection! Rescue me from this barbarian! Clothe and honor me! Return me in digni...
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10 109 She only laughed at me, from a fee cart, moving rapidly away, with my purse, waving the redemption papers, signed for freedom, in her hand.
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10 185 I am a free woman!" "Your freedom will soon be a matter of the past," I told her.
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11 237 Too, many would fear in it the destruction of social openness, of pluralism and freedom, as it now exists on Gor".
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12 166 "I protected myself in my bargaining against such possibilities," she said, "demanding, as conditions of my cooperation, not only riches but my safety and freedom".
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16 398 Thus, in this fashion, she could reveal her hidden truth, thereby alleviating her acute mental conflicts, and her sufferings, attendant upon its concealment, and by another, as she has no legal power in the matter herself, be restored to freedom.
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16 404 In this way, she, ostensibly seeking her freedom, may find herself plunged instead into explicit and inescapable bondage, and will doubtless, too, soon find herself properly marked and collared, to preclude the possible repetition of any such nonsense in the future.
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18 310 Some of the free women may have taken custody of a female slave in order to use her to distract Cosians, or to barter with them, perhaps thinking to prevail upon them to accept the slave as a substitute for themselves, thereby securing their own freedom.
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21 580 Finding herself under the continuing regard of Aemilianus the former Lady Publia, her charade of pretended freedom over, wisely spread her knees.
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21 817 "You do not ask for her freedom?" he asked.
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21 1105 "Surely not that, or only that," said Publia, "if only in deference to our dignity, our modesty, and our recent freedom, for we both recently were free, Master".
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21 1354 The slave, because of her training, her emotional freedom, thousands of times greater than that of a free woman, the discipline she is under, and such, can attain orgasm much more quickly than a free woman, sometimes, particularly if she has been deprived for a time, almost immediately.
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21 1360 "That they might then see fit to reward her with her freedom," I said.
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21 1538 Did they look back, I wondered, on the days of their freedom, or did they look forward, perhaps with fear, to what might lie ahead, to their branding and collaring, to their sale, perhaps by public auction, to the hazards and duties, the labors and perils, of their new condition, to the strangers in...
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24 41 The slave girl within the city, incidentally, commonly receives a great deal of freedom.
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24 43 Her mobility and freedom in such respects is often much greater than that accorded to free women.
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24 44 This freedom and mobility does not matter greatly, of course, for she is branded and collared.
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24 137 After the fall of Ar's Station the Cosian troops, and their allies, mercenary and otherwise, would have much more freedom.
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24 512 This is sometimes spoken of in Gorean as the paradox of the collar, that only in the collar, only in subjection to a male, only in being owned, only in obedience, service and love, does woman find her true freedom.
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Book 24. (7 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 187 'Well do I remember you in the fee cart moving rapidly away, laughing, carrying my purse with you, waving the redemption papers, signed for freedom!' 'It was not I!' she cried.
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2 200 "Even in your freedom you had addressed to him the word 'Master,'" I reminded her.
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27 76 "You," he said, "a Cosian spy, would grant me my life, and freedom?" "You are not a female," I said.
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27 124 "I give you thanks," said he, "for my life, for my freedom".
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27 134 "I never thought to owe my life, or freedom, to a spy from Cos," he said.
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31 442 "They are too much concerned with their status, dignity, freedom and independence to be any good in the furs".
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37 173 The anthropological point is simply one of fact, which, one supposes, is worth noting, but does not require extensive comment, namely, freedom, particularly of the social and political sort, however estimable it may be, is not a necessary condition for human happiness; two other factors are more imp...
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Book 25. (17 results) Magicians of Gor

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3 690 And I thought then, too, sadly, of the women of Earth, so many of them so confused, so miserable, so unhappy, women not knowing what they were, or what they might be, women trapped in a maze of ultimately barren artifices, women subjected to inconsistent directives and standards, women subjected to ...
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7 362 This would almost certainly preclude not only his return to power, if he should manage to regain his freedom, but even the formation of a party that might favor this.
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8 490 "It is supposedly a time of freedom," I said.
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8 491 "Thus, why should a good fellow of Ar object if a flute girl sits in a given fashion? Is not everyone to be permitted anything?" "No," said Marcus, "freedom is for the free.
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9 812 The paradox of the collar is the freedom which a woman experiences in at last finding herself, and becoming herself.
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12 322 To be sure, it could be amusing to do so, particularly if it were useful in informing her that her freedom was likely to be brief duration, perhaps that within twenty yards an iron was heating for her, and a collar was waiting for her, with others, looped on a collar pole.
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22 26 Too, she might be somehow remembered from the days of her freedom, when her person had been sacrosanct and inviolate, and her will selfish and imperious, and this might earn her some abuse, perhaps to assuage lingering resentments, accrued from formerly endured effronteries, or perhaps merely, for t...
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24 167 Indeed many women of Earth are not even really conscious of their freedom.
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24 170 In short, when all, or most, women are free their freedom tends to be invisible, so to speak; it tends to be taken for granted, and affords no societally significant distinction.
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24 171 In this way the average woman of Earth has little practical understanding of either freedom or bondage.
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24 175 If the Earth girl is brought to Gor and marketed, of course, she will become acutely aware of the distinction between freedom and bondage.
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26 99 "Sometimes I envy the meaningless property tarts," she said, "running about much as they please, here and there, in all their freedom, in their short skirts and collars.
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26 100 Sometimes I think that they have more freedom than I, that I, a free woman, indeed, one who is Ubara of Ar, am more slave than slave".
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26 347 In her, it seemed, might be revelations, discoveries, and enforcements that in her state of inert freedom could scarcely be conjectured.
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26 555 "I will buy my freedom!" she said.
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27 653 "I shall buy my freedom".
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27 678 "You are not interested in offering me your favors, to buy your freedom?" I asked.
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Book 26. (16 results) Witness of Gor

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14 887 How different were such garments from the usual scanty lightness of the slave's garmenture, usually a brief, revealing garmenture permitting her the luxurious freedom of her limbs, a garmenture in which she finds herself permitted a joyous and uninhibited freedom of movement.
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7 974 It would become, in all probability, then, not a difference between captivity and freedom, but a mere changing of collars.
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8 779 I wished they might know my freedom, and joy, but, too, of course, there were terrors here, and dangers.
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11 1213 She did not request her freedom, of course.
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12 260 "We have in common our precious freedom," she said.
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12 263 But I did not doubt she had in mind some more serious sense of freedom, and one that made me uneasy.
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13 1052 It must be the principle of the thing then, I supposed, that in the prison it was imposed upon them, presumably as some sort of insult or disparagement, while in their freedom, on the other hand, it was something they would themselves relish and require.
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13 1474 I had little doubt that if I had been permitted to retain my freedom I would have abused it, almost certainly so in my old world.
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14 178 "Freedom is precious," I said.
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14 179 "I have had freedom," she said.
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18 119 Some free women seek the collar, having come to understand that only in it can they find their fulfillment and happiness, and, paradoxically, at last, strangely perhaps, their most profound freedom.
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19 560 They were so imperiously grand in their freedom.
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24 758 Some tried two, even three, times, to leap up, to flee to freedom, but they could not penetrate the ring of men.
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26 37 "This is what you have longed for, this is what you have waited for, this is what you have lived for, what you have hungered for, your freedom, your liberty!" She wept.
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29 423 "Indeed," he cried, "you are slave beautiful! You should never have been a free woman! How absurd that freedom should have been permitted to you! What a woeful mistake! Such a body is born for the collar! It is incomplete without it!" She stood silent before him, scrutinized, inspected.
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38 154 The pit master had decided that it would not harm her, to spoil her for freedom.
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Book 27. (51 results) Prize of Gor

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16 1106 Are we not even to be allowed the freedom to be what we most wish to be? If not, what sort of freedom is that? The freedom to conform to an alien stereotype, an image imposed from without? I am a natural slave.
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22 71 The man was free, the master; his was a genuine freedom; but the freedom for the woman, her genuine freedom, was quite different; it was to belong to him, to be owned and mastered, to be his slave.
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12 276 Her freedom, if she is to be accorded freedom, is always in the hands of another.
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12 290 Certainly those on her former world who most shamelessly exploited the rhetoric of freedom did not lack freedom, but rather wanted to use such rhetorics, and allied pressures and subterfuges, in order to have goods, unfair advantages, special privileges, and such, given to them, such as economic res...
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12 314 One freedom had been denied to her, the freedom not to be free.
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17 522 Better the freedom of slavery on Gor, she thought, than the slavery of freedom on Earth.
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17 665 "Freedom is trivial and meaningless," said Targo, "when all have freedom.
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9 116 And she wondered, too, if some of the cumbersomely clad free women in the room, several even veiled, might not envy the others, their sisters, the freedom of their simple garmentures.
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11 709 "May I speak with some freedom, Master?" she asked.
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12 274 The Gorean slave girl has no way to free herself or earn her freedom.
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12 281 No, Ellen did not think of freedom, for she knew that on this world that was not possible for her.
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12 288 Freedom, in itself, while undeniably precious, and doubtless a value, and doubtless appropriate for males, whom she now understood, having met true men, were the natural masters of women, tended, in itself, to be an abstraction, a possibility, an emptiness, in its way.
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12 291 Their test for freedom was the receipt of ever-greater amounts of politically engineered unearned benefits.
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12 296 Perhaps freedom was not the ideal for everyone.
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12 303 She did recognize, of course, that freedom was not an absolute, and that even the most free, so to speak, were subject to countless limitations.
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12 304 At best, freedom was relative, even for the free.
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12 311 But her world had denied that freedom to her.
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12 315 That freedom had been denied to her.
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12 316 Freedom had been imposed upon her, socially, legally.
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12 317 She could not have given up her freedom even if she had wished to do so.
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12 318 Freedom was doubtless precious.
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12 327 She did know enough sociology, and enough history, to know, though she would not have dared to mention it in her classes, that human happiness, statistically, bears no essential relationship to freedom whatsoever, but is rather a function of doing what one feels like doing, with the reinforcement an...
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12 361 She lay beside her tub, thrilled, considering the sexual freedom of the Gorean slave girl.
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15 232 How stupid of the men of Earth to permit you and others like you your charade of freedom! Your life as a free woman is behind you.
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15 406 Ellen, for whatever reason, because of her intelligence, or her dispositions, or whatever it might have been, had made the transition from freedom to slavery with relative ease.
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16 523 How she envied them their freedom! They were free! They could come and go as they pleased.
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16 1100 I have experienced freedom.
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16 1150 Clearly what she wanted was not freedom but a slavery of her choice.
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17 38 In their collars, kneeling before men, they find their liberation and freedom as females.
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17 664 It is absurd that a natural slave should be permitted freedom".
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17 672 "Give me my freedom of will!" said Ellen.
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17 674 "Give me my freedom!" said Ellen.
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17 679 "Give me my freedom!" wept Ellen.
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17 704 "In any event," he said, "there is no necessary connection between freedom and happiness, and often an inverse correlation.
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17 707 Happiness is not a function of freedom, but of doing what you want to do, really, and being as you want to be, really.
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20 1022 In her enslavement she finds her freedom.
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22 77 If Ellen were a free woman, she did not think that she would have come to such a camp, unless she was prepared to risk her freedom.
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22 168 It is a common belief on Gor that all free females desire in their secret hearts to be the slaves of masters; there is a saying, in every free female there lurks a slave, a slave awaiting her liberation, her freedom, her collar.
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24 620 You put me in chains, and in them I have found the greatest freedom and happiness a woman can know! Oh, I know my vulnerability, and I fear the bonds of a slave, but I would not have things other than as they are! Oh, I fear the whip, but I would not be other than subject to it! So see me dance, Mas...
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25 382 "Perhaps you could call out from the auction block, proclaiming your freedom, seeking to attract the attention of citizens of Brundisium".
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25 392 "There might then be a lingering doubt left in your mind, that you might have been able to regain your freedom, at that one moment, before that opportunity disappeared forever, the price being small, only a beating, a few strokes of the lash".
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25 394 "But perhaps you will not fully appreciate your slavery, or understand its inflexibility, its absoluteness, unless you have made every effort to obtain your freedom, and have failed, and have come to understand the absolute hopelessness of such an endeavor.
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25 401 "And if you should manage to obtain your freedom, which I assure you you will not, by calling out upon the block, that is not the end of the matter".
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25 411 "And then you would not have to worry about the possibility of obtaining your freedom," said Ellen.
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25 1111 But, why? Perhaps she is merely nasty, or unhappy, and feels secure in her freedom.
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27 1224 Behind the brandished facades of freedom, concealed within painstakingly erected ideological fortresses of denial, the victims of self-imposed starvations, a slaver might detect the ready, yearning slave.
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27 2490 Most slaves, incidentally, have a great deal of freedom, in moving about the city, shopping, running errands, inspecting goods at the markets, wandering in the bazaars, laundering at the public troughs, strolling about in the parks and on the avenues, such things.
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27 2501 Whereas most slaves have a great deal of freedom, as hitherto mentioned, most will be expected to ask permission to leave the domicile of the master, and will be expected to return by a designated Ahn.
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27 2502 The ambulatory freedom of the slave girl ends, however, at the city gate.
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30 638 Once a woman has worn the collar, truly worn it, you see, she is forever spoiled for freedom.
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30 692 But the pain that Gorean men will accept from their free women, in deference to their freedom, and their sharing of a Home Stone, they do not, and will not, accept in their slaves.
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Book 28. (18 results) Kur of Gor

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1 730 Freedom was not for such as she.
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1 924 It was not that he accepted uncritically the brunette's denials of bondage, of course, so much as that the supposition of her freedom seemed to best explain, and best cohere with, a hundred small details of her temperament and behavior.
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1 1013 One thing that is apparently difficult for free Goreans to understand, and perhaps for others who are free, or enjoy the semblance of freedom, is the reveling of the slave in what they conceive of as her degradation.
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3 297 It would be time enough later, to let her know what she had done on the Prison Moon, that she had bespoken herself slave, and in so doing had renounced her freedom, irrecoverably, that it had been an act which it was now wholly beyond her power to revoke, amend or qualify in any way.
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8 158 Humans must believe it is their battle, a battle waged to win their own freedom, a struggle to claim what has been denied to them, and is rightfully theirs, Gor".
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11 141 Once the slave fires flame in the belly of a woman her freedom is behind her.
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11 142 She is then spoiled for freedom, is beyond it, and lives instead for the attention, love, and touch of her master.
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18 62 Once the slave fires have been lit in her belly, her freedom is behind her.
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31 6 In Cabot's hands she had been spoiled for freedom.
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31 8 Freedom was now well behind her.
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31 22 How free she now was, how fulfilled, how unabashedly alive and sensuous! Freedom was now behind her, forever, even if it meant the auction block.
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36 335 Our bondage is our freedom, our servitude our liberty".
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45 71 And she soon begins to take delight not only in the attractiveness of her garment, but in its lightness and softness, and in the freedom it grants her.
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57 100 "She is to have the freedom of the camp," said Lord Grendel.
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57 142 Too, Lord Grendel, I now understand, as I did not before, your seeming lenience to the traitress, permitting her clothing, such as it might be, the freedom of the camp, and such.
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76 20 First, what many understand as "freedom" has never been essential to happiness, and may actually prove inimical to it.
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76 26 Second, there are many sorts of freedom, not just one.
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76 27 And the slave, though she is the property of a master, and is wholly his, may in her way find more freedom, and be a thousand times more liberated, so to speak, and more joyous, than the free women who fear and despise her.
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Book 29. (20 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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1 225 He deserved, I thought, the woods or forests, the plains or mountains, the openness and freedom, of Gor, not the steel platings and inserted gardens, the contrived geography, of a Steel World.
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2 140 One might balance, say, freedom, misery, and death, against bondage, happiness, and life.
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4 362 The Gorean free woman is glorious in her freedom.
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4 390 Other situations are also regarded as ones in which the woman has voluntarily, or inadvertently, divested herself of the social and cultural mantles usually sufficient to protect her freedom and honor, such as walking the high bridges at night, undertaking dangerous expeditions or voyages, traversin...
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5 791 She has been, as it is said, "spoiled for freedom".
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9 79 Accordingly, it is not unprecedented that a female Kur agent on Gor, to increase her mobility and anonymity, may be dressed as though she were, despite her freedom and importance, no more than a slave.
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10 49 The man's kimono is informal, elegant, and loose, and allows much freedom of movement.
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12 94 Freedom, obviously, is not an absolute value, as only fools could believe.
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12 95 Freedom for what is an obvious consideration.
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13 67 That she exists, in the glory of her freedom, that she is so different from the shameful female slave, that she adds luster to the city and its Home Stone, is enough; that she be dedicated to refined and tasteful pursuits, such as attendance at the theater, at song dramas, poetry readings, and such,...
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14 145 Collar-girls have much more freedom, as would domestic sleen or scavenging tarsks.
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15 329 She had been a slave long enough to appreciate, and relish, and take delight in, the freedom of the tunic.
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16 20 I personally preferred solitary tarnflight, and I supposed most tarnsmen would, as there is a wild sense of freedom on tarnback, sometimes almost of exaltation, as one seems one with the bird.
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17 31 They have been spoiled for freedom.
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18 525 "Why should a slave be granted even a moment of freedom?" I include, in passing, for those who might find it of interest, the following brief, ritual dialogue, in the form of a simple question and answer, which, in certain cities, is not unusual between a master and his slave.
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26 262 When it became clear that Marlenus had indeed returned, he recognized by some meaningless female slave in the city, and that the rising would be successful, we took our way to the height of the Central Cylinder, from which point we hoped to either escape or negotiate our way to freedom, turning the ...
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27 77 In the common coffle there is usually much freedom, particularly when being conducted between cities.
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38 294 I had given him, perhaps unwisely, given his treachery and crime, an opportunity for escape and freedom, an opportunity which, as it turned out, he had been unable to turn to his advantage.
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38 458 Torn between her lingering pretenses of freedom and her slave needs, she had been found insufficiently pleasing by her masters, and was to be cast to eels in a pool in a Pleasure Cylinder, associated with a Steel World.
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44 94 "I do not envy them their freedom," she said.
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Book 30. (13 results) Mariners of Gor

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28 223 "No," she said, "a thousand times no! I have known the emptiness, the loneliness, of freedom, the pretensions, the selfishness, the uncertainties of freedom, the confusions, the lack of place, the opacities and ambiguities of freedom, the lack of purpose, the lack of meaning and identity!" "It is tr...
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8 389 Might they not, too, be so attractive, were they so excitingly clad, so invitingly bared? And how angry they are that men, who should be above such things, look with such obvious favor on mere slaves! The slave, of course, may at first be miserably shamed to be so garmented, to be put in such a garm...
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3 216 Had she not been, she might have tried, foolishly, to barter that information for her freedom.
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3 375 "So," she said, "well disguised, and bearing riches, I would make my way to freedom".
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3 1060 ' 'Your kiss for your freedom?' he asked.
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3 1107 But this stratagem, to bargain with her for our freedom, even if those of Ar were prepared to bargain, came to naught with her disappearance, her rescue or abduction, from the roof of the Central Cylinder.
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3 1482 What woman would not wish to be excitingly garbed, to be not only permitted, but to have no choice but to publicly exhibit her beauty? What woman would not wish to escape the inhibitions, the social demands, the conventions and pressures, the robes, veils, and proprieties which so control and confin...
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5 306 A lucky stroke might fetch him freedom".
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8 71 Perhaps the tarns themselves, now unhobbled, unwilling to return to the imprisonment of the cramped cots below, where they had seen their fellows die, now drunk with their sudden freedom, in the cold, fine, piercing air, exhilarated, and exultant, had chosen to reclaim for themselves their rightful ...
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8 394 One wonders sometimes if they understand that the freedom which, in their arrogance, they take so much for granted is tenuous and fragile, a revocable gift of men.
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12 715 "There would be riches and freedom for him," I said, "and great jubilation in Ar, when she was publicly impaled".
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17 56 Embonded, she finds her freedom; enslaved, she is most content.
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19 32 One speaks of chains, ropes, thongs, and such, and they are lovely and instructive accessories, not to be overlooked or ignored, and are surely useful, as well, for inescapable custodial purposes, but it seems clear that the mightiest bonds, within which the slave is helpless, and forever ruined for...
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Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor

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69 135 But how could freedom compare with the collar, with being owned, with being a belonging, with the helpless love of a slave for her master? "Surely you desire freedom," he said.
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Book 35. (1 results) Quarry of Gor

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1 63 Is it so strange that a lightly-clad, collared, owned animal, sexual and beautiful, exciting and needful, her slave fires kindled by the will and doings of men, might be found, however undeservedly, of interest to men? What man would wish, save for social or economic advantage, to indefinitely pursu...
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