| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 137 |
"Yet there is a hierarchy of Home Stones, one might say, and two soldiers who would cut one another down with their steel blades for an acre of fertile ground will fight side by side to the death for the Home Stone of their village or of the city within whose ambit their village lies. |
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| 2 | 147 |
Then, after a long moment, not looking at me, he said, "It is rumored there is such a stone, but it lies in the Sacred Place and is the source of the Priest-Kings' power". |
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| 20 | 6 |
I can see the blazing sun this July afternoon, and know that behind it, counterpoised with my native planet, lies another world. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 117 |
"I will not take her to Tharna, but to my villa," said Thorn, "which lies outside the city". |
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| 14 | 152 |
"The bird is chained! Attack! Kill them both!" In that instant the bolt gave, and the nut spun from the shaft! The tarn, as if it understood it was free, shook the hated metal from its leg and lifted its beak to the skies and uttered such a cry as must have been heard by all in Tharna, a cry seldom ... |
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| 24 | 190 |
"He lies," said Thorn. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13 |
It was not far to the fair of En'Kara, one of the four great fairs held in the shadow of the Sardar during the Gorean year, and I soon walked slowly down the long central avenue between the tents, the booths and stalls, the pavilions and stockades of the fair, toward the high, brassbound timber gate... |
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| 1 | 43 |
In differences among members of my own caste, that of the Warriors, it is easier to tell who has carried the day, for the defeated one often lies wounded or slain at the victor's feet. |
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| 2 | 121 |
On the other hand if I were under the larl I would have a brief but clean strike at the great, pounding, eight-valved heart that lies in the center of its breast. |
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| 19 | 50 |
"Very well," said Sarm, "the true source of the Priest-Kings' power lies in the microparticles of the universe". |
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| 22 | 123 |
"The girl Vika of Treve lies in the tunnels of the Golden Beetle," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 30 |
The Cartius River incidentally, mentioned earlier, was named for the direction it lies from the city of Ar. |
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| 2 | 53 |
It is said they remove the hood only when the sentence is death, so that it is only condemned men who have seen whatever it is that lies beneath the hood. |
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| 5 | 25 |
The Turian collar lies loosely on the girl, a round ring; it fits so loosely that, when grasped in a man's fist, the girl can turn within it; the common Gorean collar, on the other hand, is a flat, snugly fitting steel band. |
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| 9 | 53 |
"Do not object that we are entertained in the house of Saphrar of the Merchants," Kamchak had said, "for in Turia power lies with such men". |
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| 22 | 44 |
Then he added, "Much of the richest booty of Turia lies behind these walls". |
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| 26 | 490 |
"I think," said he, "you have often seen the egg of Priest-Kings, for it lies about in my wagon. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 198 |
The only city I know of on Gor which was built by the labor of slaves, beneath the lash of masters, is Port Kar, which lies in the delta of the Vosk. |
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| 10 | 110 |
"The thing you call the beast," I said, "lies through that door". |
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| 15 | 128 |
Ar lies in Gor's northern hemisphere; it is rather low in her temperate latitudes; the long cold rains of the winter, the darkness of the days, the occasional snows, turning to black slush in her streets, depressed me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 60 |
The most important reason for not finding a guide, of course, even among the eastern rence growers, is that the delta is claimed by Port Kar, which lies within it, some hundred pasangs from its northwestern edge, bordering on the shallow Tamber Gulf, beyond which is gleaming Thassa, the Sea. |
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| 1 | 75 |
The plant itself has a long, thick root, about four inches thick, which lies horizontally under the surface of the water; small roots sink downward into the mud from this main root, and several "stems," as many as a dozen, rise from it, often of a length of fifteen to sixteen feet from the root; it ... |
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| 9 | 111 |
The nearest solid land, other than occasional bars in the marshes, to Port Kar lies to her north, some one hundred pasangs distant. |
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| 11 | 107 |
Some of the other basins are large enough to float galleys; these large basins connect with the arsenal's canal system, by means of which heavy materials may be conveyed about the arsenal; the arsenal's canal system also gives access, at two points, to the canal system of the city and, at two other ... |
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| 18 | 53 |
And yet songs, I told myself, are lies. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 3 |
Shortly before he made me one of his girls, some two or three days before, he had been attacked by outlaw tarnsmen, some four days journey north by northeast from the city of Ko-ro-ba, which lies high in the northern temperate latitudes of the planet Gor, which is the name of this world. |
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| 7 | 4 |
He was bound, traveling over the hills and meadowlands east and north of Ko-ro-ba, for the city of Laura, which lies on the banks of the Laurius river, some two hundred pasangs inland from the coast of the sea, called Thassa. |
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| 11 | 1275 |
It lies west of bleak, rocky Torvaldsland, substantially above even the vast, green belt of the northern forests. |
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| 13 | 945 |
"Warrior," I said, "I was truly, I confess, the favored slave of Haakon of Skjern, but I fled from him, so do not be cruel to me!" "What is the fate of a slave girl who lies?" he asked me. |
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| 15 | 532 |
"Your secret camp lies within the very realm of Ar itself! Splendid! And in this camp you keep the daughter of your worst enemy, the daughter of the Ubar of great Ar itself, as slave! Magnificent!" I watched the girl dancing, the slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 18 |
We were fifty pasangs north of Lydius, which port lies at the mouth of the Laurius River. |
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| 2 | 619 |
"The camp of Verna," she said, "and her dancing circle, lies one hundred pasangs north of Lydius, and twenty pasangs inland from the shore of Thassa". |
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| 2 | 632 |
"The camp of Verna," she said, "lies ten pasangs upriver from Lydius, and fifty pasangs north, inland from the Laurius". |
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| 2 | 702 |
They were handed down the hatch to the first hold, and then, by others, handed down the hatch to the lower hold, which lies near the fore quarter of the ship. |
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| 2 | 734 |
"The camp, and dancing circle, of Verna," said the first girl, Tana, "lies north and east of Laura. |
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| 3 | 66 |
It lies in the lands of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 10 | 108 |
"Ar is where the Home Stone of Ar lies!" He chuckled. |
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| 11 | 52 |
"A citizen of Ar," I said, "lies slave". |
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| 14 | 276 |
No one lies to her about it, not even she herself. |
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| 15 | 670 |
"Do you know the penalty," I asked, "for a slave girl who lies to her master?" She looked at me, no longer smiling. |
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| 20 | 13 |
The heart lies but the width of a hand within the body, the jugular but the width of a finger. |
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| 20 | 288 |
"He who held this bow," said Verna, "lies now wounded in the darkness, struck by one of his own fellows. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 118 |
"How do you like it, Thyri," asked he, "to find that you are now a girl whose belly lies beneath the sword?" "It lies not beneath your sword," she snapped. |
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| 1 | 143 |
How else could we tell ourselves from urts and sleen? What distinguishes us from such beasts? The ability to multiply and subtract, to tell lies, to make knives? No, I think particularly it is the sense of honor, and the will to hold one's ground. |
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| 6 | 214 |
In the north, the bondmaid is sometimes referred to as a woman whose belly lies beneath the sword. |
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| 6 | 260 |
"I see, Thyri," said he, "that you are now a woman whose belly lies beneath the sword". |
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| 6 | 519 |
At the foot of the ground level, which is the sleeping level, which lies about a foot above the dug-out floor, the long center of the hall, on the floor, against the raised dirt, here and there, were rounded logs, laid lengthwise. |
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| 21 | 44 |
But on Gor, as with others of her ilk, such lies and false dignities were not permitted her. |
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| 22 | 183 |
Perhaps it is the knowing that they are rightless, owned, dominated, which so deeply, so incredibly, triggers the profound web of yielding, piteously receptive, helplessly submitting reflexes; perhaps in the depth of their bodies lies the secret need to be sexually subjugated, totally, without which... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 465 |
They refuse to accept the loving service of one who longs to serve lovingly; they will not accept the obeisance of one who yearns to yield it; they deny submission to she who longs to submit; they draw to her feet she who, weeping, longs to kneel; they deny the animal in her, the wonderful gift of e... |
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| 1 | 65 |
Yet, somewhere beneath the conditioned behavior lies the animal, which moved naturally before there was a civilization to teach it the proprieties of mechanism. |
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| 1 | 808 |
"And what," I asked, "of the message on the stone, 'Beware the steel tower'?" "It is a mystery," said Samos, "and the answer lies here". |
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| 1 | 829 |
"It is here," said Samos, pointing to the map, "that the secret lies". |
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| 2 | 129 |
From Kasra I had taken a dhow upriver on the Lower Fayeen, until I reached the village of Kurtzal, which lies north, overland, from Tor. |
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| 2 | 286 |
In the cafes, as in the paga taverns of the north, one learns the realities of a city, what is its latest news, what is afoot in the city, what are its dangers, its pleasures, and where its power lies. |
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| 5 | 548 |
It is not difficult for a female dancer, lightly clad, displaying her beauty, to detect where among those who watch her lies power. |
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| 10 | 269 |
"Suleiman, Pasha at Nine Wells," said I, "lies in his palace in critical condition. |
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| 12 | 295 |
"There is another kasbah nearby," I said, "one which lies within two pasangs. |
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| 13 | 65 |
The major protection and control of the Tahari salt, of course, lies in its remoteness, the salt districts, of which there are several, being scattered and isolated in the midst of the dune country, in the long caravan journeys required, and the difficulty or impossibility of obtaining it without kn... |
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| 13 | 66 |
A lesser protection and control of the salt, though a not unformidable one, lies in the policing of the desert by the Salt Ubar, or the Guard of the Dunes. |
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| 14 | 385 |
When the girl lies on her stomach, her head to the rear wall, she cannot prevent the door from locking behind her. |
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| 18 | 28 |
"Our business lies elsewhere," I said. |
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| 18 | 77 |
Further, one shields, with one's body, the surface on which one lies. |
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| 20 | 131 |
"Your first business lies with your tribe. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 183 |
Cos lies north of Tyros and west of Port Kar, which latter city is located in the Tamber Gulf, which lies just beyond the Vosk's delta. |
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| 4 | 952 |
Among slave girls, however, ear piercing, inflicted upon them by the will of their masters, is becoming widespread on Gor; one might say it is gaining considerable popularity among masters, which accounts, of course, for its growing frequency in the female slave population of the planet; it is a cus... |
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| 5 | 9 |
Each of these is heavier and more opaque than the one which lies within. |
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| 5 | 125 |
Ti lies on the Olni, a tributary of the Vosk, north of Tharna. |
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| 7 | 147 |
"Ah, Lady," said my master, "there, you see, lies your true value". |
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| 7 | 800 |
Some Goreans say that a woman's beauty can only be fairly judged when she lies at a man's feet. |
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| 9 | 1794 |
"She lies before you, helpless". |
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| 10 | 48 |
It lies far to the south, in the middle latitudes of her southern hemisphere. |
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| 11 | 209 |
Sometimes a keep will fly a given banner but its garrison will be furnished by the city within whose territory it lies. |
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| 16 | 159 |
With four other girls, later, with buckets, I emptied the bilge, which lies below and at the center of the floor of the hold, under a removable wooden grille. |
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| 22 | 72 |
In my heart, I know, there lies a slave girl, once denied, then secretly feared, now openly and joyously recognized, who longs for a master. |
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| 22 | 356 |
The first is that the slave's limbs and body are likely to be vital and shapely, for she is trained, exercised, dieted and rested, to keep her in prime condition for her master; she is, after all, a lovely animal and thus is subject to a management and care which, while appropriate for an animal, wo... |
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| 22 | 747 |
"She lies now before me, naked and bound, at my mercy". |
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| 25 | 138 |
"The security of this cipher," smiled Bosk, "lies not in itself, as a cipher, but rather, as is common, that it is not understood as a cipher. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 112 |
The message, easily printed, easily read, thus lies across several of the divisions in the wrapped silk. |
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| 2 | 224 |
Did she think her sex, her richness and beauty, and needs, were mere contigencies, tangential to her being? She seemed much the victim of the neuterizing propagandas of a dry, thin, intellectually ugly world, the dupe of lies designed to conceal herself from herself, whose intent was to enlist her a... |
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| 2 | 473 |
"The meaning of history," I said, "lies not in the future. |
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| 2 | 624 |
"It lies somewhere here". |
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| 2 | 715 |
Beauty, I suspect, lies all about us. |
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| 3 | 85 |
"The nearest," I told the fellow from Torvaldsland, pointing down a corridor between pavilions and booths, "lies some quarter of a pasang in that direction, beyond the booths of the rug merchants. |
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| 3 | 532 |
I admired this small, almost meaningless symbol of their femininity, this small, pathetic gesture protesting to the machine and the lies that they were really women; too, I recalled the undergarments of such girls; they, too, protested the cause of their beauty in the alien country of the machine. |
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| 4 | 521 |
Seldom would his jokes and lies prove so profitable I suspected. |
10 |
| 6 | 60 |
"It lies in the north," I said. |
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| 9 | 223 |
Yet they have never seen fit, through lies, to inflict suffering on children. |
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| 12 | 210 |
Their occasional vastnesses, and the might of the forces that have formed them, become even more impressive when it is understood that what one can see above the surface does little more than hint at what lies below. |
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| 12 | 231 |
Ax Glacier lies in one valley between two of these chains. |
10 |
| 12 | 592 |
"Because I think," she whispered, "deep within me, there lies a slave". |
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| 12 | 649 |
"Perhaps the lies of civilization are preferable to the truths of barbarism," she said. |
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| 24 | 197 |
Gone are the politically and economically motivated lies; gone is the cant and hypocrisy. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 480 |
"What then lies in store for me?" she whispered. |
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| 6 | 736 |
The lies of her false civilization cast aside, the veneers of her acculturation rent and discarded, being of no interest to Gorean men, who did not share them, the deepest and most primitive female animal in her would be liberated. |
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| 11 | 62 |
This permits you to console yourself with lies and, at the same time, provides you with an excuse for despising and belittling the truly attractive woman, thinking she is merely, as you would be, if you were she, acting. |
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| 14 | 651 |
Beneath the patterns, the trainings, the roles, lies the woman. |
10 |
| 18 | 52 |
The meaning of history lies not in the future but in the moment. |
10 |
| 23 | 78 |
"The spear, as in all such matters," smiled Mwoga, "has decided wherein lies the right". |
10 |
| 23 | 321 |
And west, only a pasang away, lies the smiths' island, where men are added to the chain". |
10 |
| 24 | 325 |
"Your slave lies naked before you, Master," said Tende. |
10 |
| 25 | 20 |
"Ukungu," said Kisu, "lies to the northeast, on the coast". |
10 |
| 25 | 106 |
"Are self-deceit, and lies, and hypocrisy, so noble?" I inquired. |
10 |
| 27 | 121 |
"It lies at my feet," he said. |
10 |
| 32 | 359 |
In the deepest part of your brain lies the provocation to these truths. |
10 |
| 32 | 533 |
How much better it is to deny it, or to see it only, as through colored glass, through the softened, tinted lies of civilization. |
10 |
| 32 | 806 |
"The hypocrisy of the free woman, her concealment, her subterfuges, her lies, are not permitted to the female slave". |
10 |
| 33 | 132 |
Perhaps she is a bit more beautiful, however, when she kneels helplessly before you, or lies piteously at your feet supplicating you to satisfy her slave needs. |
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| 52 | 100 |
He discussed with you at that time, if you recall, my Ubar, the girl, Tende, daughter of Aibu, she who was to have been companioned to you, she who now lies upon her belly, a slave, at his feet". |
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| 54 | 5 |
To it led the several flights of broad stairs, ascending from that vast marble landing, with its marble mooring posts, which lies at the western edge of the ancient city, that landing to which we had first come, days ago, after our crossing of the lake. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 69 |
Your slavery, already, lies almost at the surface". |
10 |
| 2 | 335 |
"You have been taught lies," said the heavy man. |
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| 7 | 210 |
Always should one be true to the images and lies of others, fearful ones, weaklings unable to be strong themselves, whose safety lay in the bleeding and tricking of more dangerous beasts. |
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| 7 | 495 |
She lies at his feet in his collar. |
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| 7 | 575 |
Was I strong enough to accept honestly what I might find there? Is it not safer to cower in the caves of lies than stand upon the cliffs of truth, surveying the world? Yet when one stands in the sunlight, and feels the winds of reality, how dank and shameful seem the dark shelters of falsehood, and ... |
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| 8 | 43 |
Perhaps there lies somewhere in all men a trace of the rover and hunter; perhaps no man is so weak or lost as to have forgotten completely the feel of the grasped, bloody bone in his paw, or what it was on a windy night to throw back his head and howl at a moon. |
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| 13 | 36 |
The oaths of the league, and the primitive articles pertaining to its first governance, were sworn, and signed, in the meadow of Salerius, which lies on the northern bank of the Olni between Port Olni and Vonda. |
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| 13 | 44 |
The meadow of Salerius, thus, lies on the northern bank of the Olni, between Port Olni and Vonda; the area called Saleria, on the other hand, is, in effect, the lands controlled by the confederation. |
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| 13 | 45 |
Ti, Port Olni and Vonda lie on the northern bank of the Olni; Lara lies between the Olni and the Vosk, at their confluence. |
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| 17 | 90 |
"But now," she said, "Jason, her precious silk slave, lies chained upon my couch". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 86 |
"Vonda herself now lies open to our troops!' I nodded. |
10 |
| 1 | 212 |
"Do you know the penalty for a slave who lies?" "Whatever the Master wishes," she whispered, terrified, looking up at me. |
10 |
| 11 | 335 |
It lies latent and obdurate, in ambush, if you like, in the genetic codes. |
10 |
| 11 | 339 |
We may torture and mutilate the human animal; we may deny that it exists; but it lies within us, in the chemistry of every living cell in our bodies. |
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| 22 | 115 |
How zealously earnest she had been to dress in certain ways and behave in certain ways, to deny her beauty and its meaning, how desperately she had tried to live up to ideological strictures foreign to her needs; how pathetically she had dutifully repeated slogans; how sincerely she had tried to bel... |
10 |
| 22 | 130 |
Those who prefer to stay indoors need not ask what lies outside the house. |
10 |
| 23 | 175 |
True freedom and happiness, perhaps, lies not in denying and repudiating our nature but in fulfilling it. |
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| 24 | 396 |
At last there could be an end to the lies and pretenses. |
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| 29 | 4 |
It lies some two pasangs from the river itself. |
10 |
| 29 | 38 |
It lies west of Port Cos, that we may be protected from the pirates". |
10 |
| 29 | 42 |
As a merchant I think a freer trade lies in our best interest. |
10 |
| 31 | 174 |
"I have warned you about your lies!" The whip fell again and again on me. |
10 |
| 31 | 175 |
"Persist in these lies," cried the pirate, "and I will bring the matter to the attention of Kliomenes himself!" "Forgive me, Captain," I said, as though frightened. |
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| 32 | 67 |
It lies to the east of Sais. |
10 |
| 32 | 136 |
"Are you so desperate for status among your fellow sleen," asked Kliomenes, "that you will risk such lies in this place?" I kept my head down. |
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| 32 | 357 |
I assumed they would think I would have emerged north and east of the channel, for that way lies closer to Victoria. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 96 |
She lies there alone, unclothed, under the sheets, awaiting her master. |
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| 19 | 193 |
She lies before him, a slave, his to do with as he pleases. |
10 |
| 20 | 309 |
But the greatest beauty of the chain, like that of the brand and collar, doubtless lies in the realm of the intellect and emotions, in its meaning, and how it makes the girl feel. |
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| 20 | 1509 |
"An aroused slave, yours, lies before you, Master," she said. |
10 |
| 20 | 1802 |
Is it not common to fear most deeply that danger which lies closest at hand? Consider then the matter of the slave. |
10 |
| 21 | 479 |
It is she who lies in the arms of Jason of Victoria. |
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| 21 | 787 |
"It threatened the fragile structure of lies and rationalizations on which I had built my life". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1155 |
Nearby, in the snow, lies he who had been the second mounted hunter. |
10 |
| 3 | 81 |
One fears mostly they may begin to believe their own lies. |
10 |
| 3 | 151 |
It lies almost at the edge of the Ihanke, or Boundary. |
10 |
| 8 | 18 |
The central block, which must be ascended by stairs, lies at the far end of the hall as one enters, opposite the door. |
10 |
| 12 | 227 |
"That way lies our camp," said Grunt, pointing. |
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| 13 | 1277 |
"The free woman," I said, "lies down, and waits to see what will happen. |
10 |
| 13 | 1344 |
"The lies, the hypocrisies, the pretensions of pseudo-masculinity will not be permitted to me on Gor, will they, Master?" she asked. |
10 |
| 14 | 725 |
"It lies, I suppose," I said, "at the roots of Waniyanpi society". |
10 |
| 14 | 941 |
"Their country lies to the south and east of that of the Kaiila". |
10 |
| 17 | 346 |
No girl is regarded as having passed this test who has not, in her performances, made it clear to all, save perhaps herself, that it is truly a slave who lies at the paws of the kaiila. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 125 |
Thenceforth, he repudiates lies and spurious images. |
10 |
| 14 | 124 |
"Even if it is a lie it is a lie which lies at the very foundation of our society. |
10 |
| 14 | 528 |
That cannot be concealed by all the lies and the coarse, cruel cloth in the world. |
10 |
| 18 | 64 |
Their territory lies roughly northwest of the Kaiila River, north of the northern fork of the Kaiila River, and east of the Snake River. |
10 |
| 20 | 21 |
"These are lies," said Hci. |
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| 30 | 66 |
Harmless lies, perhaps, improve the quality of human life. |
10 |
| 40 | 474 |
"Your lies, your subterfuges, your pretenses, are at an end". |
10 |
| 40 | 669 |
Beyond that admission there lies little more than the effectuation of a technicality". |
10 |
| 43 | 248 |
"How offensive it is that you, a lofty free woman, are tied naked in a sack, as though you might be a mere slave, as though there might be no difference between you and the Kaiila slave girl who lies beside you". |
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| 50 | 82 |
"She lies merely to avoid the rocks," said a man, sneeringly. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 46 |
Kasra lies west of Tor, which lies at the northwestern edge of the Tahari, the great desert, the Wastes. |
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| 3 | 129 |
It lies to the east and somewhat north of Argentum". |
10 |
| 6 | 514 |
Where I had needed reality and truth I had been given only lies, propaganda and false values. |
10 |
| 13 | 60 |
"You know the penalties for a slave who lies," said Miles. |
10 |
| 23 | 352 |
Gone then would be an array of pretenses, of hoaxes, of possibilities, of lies. |
10 |
| 24 | 145 |
I had begun to sense on this perilous, primitive, beautiful world what might be the natural relationship between man and woman, a relationship expressive of the character of a species hewn by eons of evolution rather than local agendas and expediencies dictated by a subglandular minority's self-serv... |
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| 31 | 541 |
Here, on Gor, there were none of the confusions, the denials, the lies and ambiguities of Earth; here there was clarity, structure and truth. |
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| 32 | 172 |
What true man does not want to hear this word from a beautiful woman, one from whom it emanates appropriately? What true man does not desire the mastery, and absolute power over a beautiful woman? What true man does not wish to own, and fully, the most exciting woman he has ever seen, to have her at... |
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| 33 | 654 |
And I suspected that she, no more than I, even if permitted, could return to the simplicities, pretensions, abstractions, lies, and hypocrisies of our former state. |
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| 36 | 524 |
I wondered if they listened to the lies they were told to tell themselves, and if they managed to believe them, or if they found much enjoyment in treading the dry, narrow, walled paths set out for them. |
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| 36 | 1445 |
"I am not one of those women who thinks her part in making love is finished when she lies down," I said. |
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| 36 | 1483 |
She must then, as he lies slothful and recumbent beneath her, at his ease, observing her, perhaps amused, writhe upon command and thus serve, and eventually cap, his volcano. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 4 | 166 |
"Do you know where lies the old inn of Ragnar, on the old west road?" he asked. |
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| 5 | 2 |
It lies in the midst of certain other buildings, mostly now, too, closed and dark. |
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| 12 | 712 |
Bina lies on her belly before master! Bina acknowledges that she is less than the dust beneath his feet! Bina is only a slave! Be kind to Bina! Please be kind to Bina!" "The robes will dry," said the player. |
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| 18 | 134 |
"In this trunk, sacked and shackled, at our mercy, lies an enemy of Brundisium, an arrogant fellow who dared to displease our throne, a captain and slaver of Port Kar, one of whom you may have heard, the supposedly mighty and redoubtable Bosk of Port Kar!" called out Belnar. |
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| 22 | 364 |
Indeed, I knew a world predicated on lies and the perversion of nature. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 538 |
How far removed delicious, exquisite Feiqa was from the motivated artifices, the lies and fabrications, the propaganda, the demeaning, sterile, unsatisfying, reductive, negative superficialities of antibiological roles, the prescriptions of an unnatural and pathological politics, the manipulative in... |
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| 5 | 81 |
"Besides, such behavior lies well within my entitlements". |
10 |
| 12 | 118 |
It lies even, in these times, in the midst of allied armies". |
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| 16 | 155 |
"I am trying to tell you an end to lies". |
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| 16 | 298 |
"It is just their way of accustoming us to obedience, and what lies before us". |
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| 16 | 1829 |
"At its end lies Ar". |
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| 18 | 259 |
"If some women are natural slaves, and know this in their hearts," I said, "would you prefer that they conceal this from the world? Do such lies please you? Do you commend them, truly? Would you advise these women to indulge in deceit, to rejoice in the practice of hypocrisy? What do you say to thei... |
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| 25 | 2225 |
"I wonder who truly loves himself, and women," she whispered, "he who is true to himself and his nature, refusing to deny it or pretend it doesn't exist, and who fulfills women, as what they really are, or he who betrays himself, who lies to himself and who denies the true needs of women?" "Aside fr... |
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| 25 | 2231 |
And this will remain true, always, in its own place, and in its own terms, regardless of the lies taught children, the restriction of educational posts to adherents, the pervasive propaganda, the selective allocation of research grants, the denial of freedoms and the suppression of alternative views... |
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| 25 | 2240 |
They will be explained rather by an imperfect allegiance to the lies and absurdities that brought them about". |
10 |
| 26 | 1174 |
A voyage of discovery lies before you, through lands of love and untold sensuous wonders. |
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| 26 | 1175 |
A great adventure lies before you, filled with life and meaning. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 10 |
They returned, ever again, mercilessly, horrifying me, taunting and mocking me, stripping me in the darkness of my bed of my pretenses and lies. |
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| 1 | 65 |
How tragic is she indeed, I thought, whom the lies of one's time fail to nourish. |
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| 6 | 326 |
Was it important for her, perhaps in a war with men, perhaps in her graspings for power, I wondered, to maintain that she, in her hatred, ambition, envy and narrowness, stood for an entire sex? How ridiculous! But, if so, it was easier to understand how she might hate us so, for our very existence, ... |
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| 6 | 327 |
How fearful it would be, I thought, if such a female, or such females, in all their hatred and frustration, should manage by lies, propaganda, misrepresentation, manipulation, distortion, chicanery and law, swiftly or gradually, perhaps almost unnoticeably, to bring about the ruination of the natura... |
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| 11 | 304 |
She is not there to know in whose arms she lies, or piteously, and in misery, to fall in love, but to be impregnated. |
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| 11 | 853 |
These were not men of Earth, defeated and tamed by propaganda and lies. |
10 |
| 17 | 68 |
We had come from Samnium, which lies south and east of Brundisium. |
10 |
| 24 | 392 |
But what if it did? She lies there, troubled, but somehow comforted, somehow secure, in that position. |
10 |
| 30 | 140 |
"In that direction," said the stranger, addressing himself to Mina, Cara and Tela, Mina and Cara in their chains, Tela with her wrists braceleted behind her, "lies the Viktel Aria. |
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| 33 | 187 |
"Accordingly," he said, "if someone did not wish to be observed in approaching the camp, he might come from that direction which lies more behind you, where there are trees and brush". |
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| 33 | 233 |
"In that direction lies the Viktel Aria," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 91 |
Victoria lies rather toward the west, in the reaches traditionally more subject to Cosian influence. |
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| 6 | 10 |
This arrangement makes it possible, at a glance, to see exactly where one's space lies. |
10 |
| 6 | 423 |
It is just that it is different, and more beautiful than the lies. |
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| 8 | 360 |
"I will pay!" "In the direction I ride," I said, "there lies danger". |
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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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| 14 | 169 |
"And therein lies your hope," I said. |
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| 15 | 206 |
For example, when a slave girl lies supine before a male, her arms at her side, her palms will almost invariably be exposed to him. |
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| 16 | 358 |
"The slave who lies about her slavery," I said, "is not thereby the less a slave. |
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| 21 | 459 |
Surely everything that I have done, including the matter of wanting to keep my hair, lies within the prerogatives of a free female. |
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| 21 | 950 |
After the constraints and lies of an environment warped politically to subserve unnatural interests and goals they encounter for the first time in their lives men who are quite different from most of the men they have been familiar with, men who have not been culturally tamed, men who have not been ... |
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| 23 | 94 |
Beneath the confusions, the teachings, the conditionings, the resentments, the envy, lies the natural woman, the animal, with its genetic heritage, the animal which in the way of nature, in our own and related species, is in the keeping of the male, subordinate and submissive to him, a relationship ... |
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| 24 | 211 |
"Surely those of Port Cos do not believe such lies!" cried a man. |
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| 24 | 357 |
"Thus, to what end west?" "What lies west on the Vosk," asked Aemilianus. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1158 |
"Fellow," said I, "where lies the tent of Borton, of the command of Artemidorus?" I had approached the headquarters tent of Artemidorus himself, not only its central location, on a rise, and its standard, but its size making it prominent. |
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| 3 | 234 |
"It lies on this road, to the south," I said. |
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| 5 | 54 |
"Why?" "That you may see the unavailingness of your lies," he said, "that you may see us close with the sleen of Cos, that you may see the slaughter of your friends, your paymasters, that you may see wreaked upon them the vengeance of the state of Ar! Glory to Ar!" "Glory to Ar," repeated a nearby f... |
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| 14 | 103 |
"Where lies your allegiance?" asked he. |
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| 14 | 148 |
"Lies!" said he. |
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| 14 | 156 |
"Your supposed conjectures," he said, "are the vain lies of a squirming spy, attempting to divert from himself the legitimate wrath of outraged captors. |
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| 16 | 58 |
Port Cos lies in that direction. |
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| 16 | 90 |
"But," I said, "I think the only real hope of escape from the delta lies not with units but with individuals, or small groups of such, individuals who might with fortune, and with skill and stealth, elude rencers, the surveillance of tarn scouts, and the patrols of Cos. |
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| 17 | 151 |
"There lies Ar!" cried another. |
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| 47 | 238 |
"The most dangerous lies," I said, "are those which we tell ourselves". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 70 |
What if some folks required lies, as the price of mental security? Should they be nonetheless denied their comforts, robbed of their illusions? Is their happiness worth less than that of others? Is it not better to tell them, if they are capable of no more, that the illusions are reality, that the l... |
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| 2 | 109 |
We had then gone to the Alley of the Slave Brothels of Ludmilla, on which street lies the insula of Achiates. |
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| 10 | 427 |
This is because of the psychological dimorphism of the human species, that the female's fulfillment lies in her subjection to, and subjugation by, a strong male. |
10 |
| 11 | 267 |
Ideas and lies defeated Ar. |
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| 11 | 296 |
We must pretend to believe the same lies". |
10 |
| 11 | 392 |
I am confident men have spied within and seen what lies strewn upon its tiles. |
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| 11 | 419 |
Perhaps that is because there is less need to tell lies about them. |
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| 12 | 218 |
You are not such a woman, a full, mature, knowledgeable, cognizant woman, a woman profoundly in touch with her passions and deepest self, one who has come to understand that her only hope for true happiness and fulfillment lies in obedience, love and service, one craving the collar, one yearning for... |
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| 12 | 260 |
Indeed, they often ply one another for secrets of love, makeup, costuming, perfuming, dance, and such, as each wishes to be as perfect for her master as it lies within her power to be. |
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| 12 | 406 |
At the root of their hatred, perhaps, lies their own unhappiness and lack of fulfillment, their envy of the slave, joyful in her rightful place in nature. |
10 |
| 13 | 71 |
I knew, as Marcus did not, of many civilizations which were unnatural, which had taken wrong paths, which were founded on myths and lies. |
10 |
| 14 | 335 |
Such a flat, crushed world, without difference and meaning, lies to the ruled and makes liars of the rulers. |
10 |
| 16 | 285 |
"Not if you do not know the truth," I said, "but have at your disposal only the propaganda of Cos and the lies of a traitorous government in the Central Cylinder". |
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| 19 | 1180 |
Perhaps some men ignore lies in a slave, pretending not to notice them, or, mistakenly, graciously accept them as trivial, as merely a girl's peccadilloes. |
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| 23 | 2 |
"Let it be spattered with the spew of urts!" He seized up the Home Stone from the plank on which it sat, the plank resting on two inverted wastes vats, of the sort used in insulae, in the park of the Center Cylinder, within which lies the Central Cylinder. |
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| 23 | 282 |
It is flat, and it lies flat on its board". |
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| 28 | 203 |
Indeed, you could go fetch her now, from where she lies, chained and helpless. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 14 |
The belly itself, of course, remains in contact with the surface on which one lies, the grass, the dirt, the gravel, the deck, the floor, the tiles, whatever the surface may be. |
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| 6 | 153 |
Here, away from my own world, with its confusions, its lies, its contradictions, its asceticism, its hatred, its envy, its resentment, its pervasive negativities, it seemed as though for the first time I could be what I truly was, without pretending to be something else. |
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| 7 | 551 |
"Do you know the penalties for one such as you who lies?" he asked. |
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| 8 | 231 |
Would it not have been better then to have awakened between my own sheets, in my own bed, as I had so many times before, in those familiar surroundings? Was that world not, for all its lies, its hypocritical cant, its ludicrous, wearying pretenses, its tedious self-congratulatory self-righteousness,... |
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| 8 | 533 |
I was familiar, of course, with the protocols of neuterism, the silly, self-contradictory tenets of unisex, invented by those apparently as innocent of logic as glands, and the pathetic absurdities of "personism," such things, the fictions, the lies, the pretenses, the many tiny, brittle crusts conc... |
10 |
| 10 | 51 |
He did not belong to a world in which men, through deceit and trickery, and lies, and insidious, hypocritical conditioning programs, had been bled and weakened. |
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| 10 | 580 |
And so we waited, and distracted ourselves with sweets and lies. |
10 |
| 11 | 707 |
I think that in such moments almost any woman would be likely to see through the illusions to which she has been subjected, through the lies that she has been taught, through the puppetry of her conditioning program. |
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| 12 | 125 |
Could they not even find little truths amusing, they so weak and tiny, lost among all the glittering, massive lies? Who could fear them? They were so tiny, those little truths. |
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| 13 | 1369 |
Too, one knows, as a slave, that one is not permitted modesty, not even in one's sleep, that one's beauty may be looked in upon, that as one lies there, exposed, behind the bars, it may be subjected to the consideration and scrutiny of men, as they please. |
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| 19 | 262 |
Did they never leap and run, and wrestle? Were they ashamed of having bodies, or of being alive? Had they somehow sought refuge in pathetic lies? Did they think that absurdities conferred dignity upon them? Such, I thought, might not function well in this demanding, hardy world. |
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| 19 | 469 |
That is how they make their living, by the most demeaning and grievous of all lies. |
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| 24 | 667 |
There is the foolishly outraged and defiant nudity of the stripped free woman, in her capture noose, who does not yet know how she appears to men and what will be done with her; there is her trembling nudity when she lies upon her belly in a hunting camp, awaiting her shackling; there is the nudity ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 161 |
It seems clear that she, despite what she would tell herself, despite the lies, the carefully constructed, defensive fabrications with which she sought to delude herself, had many regrets, a great many sources of sadness, that there was in her much that was only half articulated, or scarcely sensed,... |
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| 4 | 409 |
It lies within our very solar system. |
10 |
| 11 | 859 |
"Your lies, your ideology, your manipulations, your slynesses, your schemings, your trickeries, your agendas, your subversions". |
10 |
| 16 | 882 |
To be sure, if one's political programs require the devirilization, and consequent destruction, of the docile, obedient, duped male, then one must do all one can to confuse, deny, blur, and eliminate sexual differences, in this project having recourse to whatever distortions, lies, misrepresentation... |
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| 22 | 98 |
Surely I must warn her, thought Ellen, cruel and imperious as she is, of the danger in which she lies! Surely, as I, too, am a woman, I must warn her, that she not risk falling into the miserable fate, the helpless and terrible fate, in which I find myself implicated, that of a slave! Then Ellen lau... |
10 |
| 25 | 55 |
If one lies down in it one must have one's knees pulled tightly up. |
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| 26 | 1156 |
What reward will compensate one for that? Lies are expensive, and sorely purchased! There are gains and losses, always, but the gain of the few may be the loss of the many, and one wonders if the few have truly gained. |
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| 26 | 1487 |
Sometimes we tell lies to ourselves". |
10 |
| 26 | 1488 |
"How can one tell lies to oneself?" he asked. |
10 |
| 27 | 1835 |
"One lightning bolt allegedly lies within the nearest device. |
10 |
| 27 | 2753 |
He lies within their prey range. |
10 |
| 28 | 26 |
On Earth women guard their bellies with fervor, lest they succumb to what they know lies within them, the ready tinder which might be ignited by the torch of bondage. |
10 |
| 30 | 517 |
Might the master not be annoyed or embarrassed by something as unwelcome and absurd as, say, the explicit expression of a slave's love? She lies then at the foot of her master's couch. |
10 |
| 30 | 679 |
But with you, on the same chain, perhaps prized even more highly than you, their collars locked as securely as yours, their chains clasping as perfectly, their bodies as bared, may be other women, they selected as carefully as you, quiet, gentle, loving, needful, natural women, women less removed in... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1001 |
But usually at night she clutches her threadbare blanket about her, and lies curled in her kennel, awaiting dawn, when she will be summoned forth to new labors. |
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| 1 | 1343 |
What has become of us? What have we done to the world? She felt herself touched then, you see, however softly, by the fingers of a world alien to her, a natural world of meadows and moisture, of damp rocks and blades of moist grass, a world rather like her own might once have been, unspoiled, a worl... |
10 |
| 7 | 30 |
"Do they not, rather, in their futility, make the darkness yet more obscure?" "And behind the Nameless One," smiled Peisistratus, "lies the Mystery". |
10 |
| 22 | 267 |
"The paga lies". |
10 |
| 27 | 173 |
"In your former culture," said Cabot, "only males were thought to have value, really, and thus the female was supposed to become a pretend male, with male properties and virtues, a counterfeit male, a facsimile male, and so arose all the nonsense of identity, a farce transparent even to children, bu... |
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| 40 | 128 |
"Gor, and her sister, Earth," said Grendel, "lie within their atmospheres, but here the atmosphere lies within the world. |
10 |
| 41 | 24 |
"It is hard to tell as it lies," said Cabot, "but there are six". |
10 |
| 51 | 29 |
Let him think he lies coiled amongst us like an ost at our feet, unsuspected, unnoted, aware, listening". |
10 |
| 67 | 140 |
A trail of misery and death in one case, and of health and vitality in another, lies at the roots, here and elsewhere, of what might seem to be a thousand matters of coincidence, but are no more coincidences, or inexplicable accidents, than the scimitarlike sharpness of the larl's fangs, or the erra... |
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| 74 | 190 |
"And what," asked Lord Grendel, "is that reason which lies open, and comprehensible, to all?" "To take a slave into the forest, far from civilization, and do with her as I will," Cabot said. |
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| 77 | 11 |
Indeed, I think that within that extraordinarily tantalizing body which so stirs me, which I could almost hate for the effect it has on me, there lies concealed, unknown even to she herself, piteously needful, a pleasure slave". |
10 |
| 79 | 668 |
"Sometimes, Master," she said, "what lies in plainest view, most open to all, is most concealed to some, who refuse to see it". |
10 |
| 80 | 371 |
The sandal slave might then be lashed, and informed that the beauty of a free woman is far superior to that of a slave, any slave, to which she had best reply, "Yes, Mistress," one of the few lies which a slave might safely utter. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 287 |
Ar lies under the heel of Chenbar of Tyros and Lurius of Jad, of Cos. |
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| 10 | 369 |
A shogun was nominally subject to an emperor, but the emperor's role was largely ceremonial, and the true power, as is commonly the case, lies with those who are the masters of men and weapons. |
10 |
| 12 | 352 |
Savagery lies close to the precincts of civilization. |
10 |
| 16 | 268 |
How can the eye see itself, and even in water, or burnished plates, or bright mirrors, it sees but an image of itself, and who knows what lies behind it? "Tarnsmen," said Lord Nishida, "have been recruited from better than two dozen cities". |
10 |
| 23 | 37 |
Why demand that she lacerate herself on the nails of lies? How merciful, quick, and how easily done with, is a cuffing or the stroke of a switch. |
10 |
| 23 | 200 |
A world lies between the naive thigh and the marked thigh, between the unencircled neck and the neck in its collar. |
10 |
| 24 | 157 |
Too, it is a spy who may be used to convey misinformation, lies, deceits, false plans, and such, to an enemy". |
10 |
| 38 | 125 |
One is well aware of what lies beneath that bundling, a slave, in her collar. |
10 |
| 39 | 53 |
"That which lies at the conclusion of our voyage," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 153 |
Indeed her victory as a female lies in her utter and unconditional defeat as a contestant in that unnatural, strange war. |
10 |
| 6 | 121 |
"I thought I might like to see what lies at the end of the world," I said. |
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| 16 | 353 |
You know what lies ahead". |
10 |
| 16 | 355 |
"You know the season," said Lord Nishida, "and what lies ahead". |
10 |
| 34 | 8 |
How far she was today from the noise, the pollutions, the lies, the corruptions, the hypocrisies, and falsifications of her world! "Please, Master," she said. |
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| 36 | 506 |
How else might one hear the tones of distant trumpets, the tramp of vanished armies, ford rivers where now lies cracked earth, witness distant sunsets, and stand wondering on the shores of vanished seas? Pani warriors, those of the high Pani, so to speak, I learn from the stranger, are almost all li... |
10 |
| 37 | 198 |
"But see that the stern resolution which takes the beast from the block does not melt when it lies at your slave ring. |
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| 37 | 207 |
The slave is never content until she lies naked at the feet of a man". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 32 |
Many of you, as I understand it, disbelieve in the existence of Earth, or, if you give some credit to the stories, you speculate that it lies to the east, beyond the Voltai, or far to the south, perhaps far beyond Bazi and Schendi, or west, like the Farther Islands. |
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| 8 | 220 |
Is it not, ultimately, in the mass that the power lies? Who else, at a word, might swarm into the streets, armed with paving stones and clubs? Woe to the former free Gorean woman of high caste who, enslaved, might fall into the power of her hitherto despised "inferiors". |
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| 8 | 1740 |
The slave, subject to the whip, and knowing herself so, is careful to avoid it, insofar as it lies in her power. |
10 |
| 8 | 1938 |
"I gather you were a true 'free woman' on your world," said Astrinax, "with all her vanities, pettinesses, impostures, ambitions, plans, manipulations, machinations, pretensions, schemes, deceits, and lies". |
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| 10 | 135 |
In this way the slave may not see where she is being taken, what lies before her bearer, and, too, she may understand herself as goods, so carried, as much so as a sack of suls, a roll of matting, a crate of larmas, a bundle of tur-pah. |
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| 14 | 49 |
The advantage, of course, lies with the stallsman. |
10 |
| 35 | 238 |
"The advantage then," he said, "lies in the cards themselves". |
10 |
| 41 | 136 |
It, however, lies on the edges of the cards, on sixty edges, each one meaningless in itself, a meaning which manifests itself only when the sixty edges are suitably aligned". |
10 |
| 44 | 53 |
Thus were my lies and ruses exposed. |
10 |
| 49 | 27 |
The truth of the matter doubtless lies on a distant steel world, in some archive of experiments. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 10 |
Since puberty I had sensed the radical difference between women and men, and had resented, but dared not rebel against, the lies, the pervasive, insisted-upon, venerated falsities with which I was regaled, and the pretentious, uncomfortable, alien roles which I was expected to assume. |
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| 4 | 115 |
To me that seems strange, given the heartless, barbaric complexities of her world with its scramblings for wealth and power, the competitions to control the weaponry of states, that one may apply such ugly resources, under the pretense of legality, to the ends of one's own aggrandizement, a world of... |
10 |
| 5 | 5 |
I felt as though the lies of my acculturation were collapsing about me. |
10 |
| 5 | 205 |
The great difference then, I think, lies in other matters, presumably cultural. |
10 |
| 6 | 373 |
"What lies in the north?" I asked. |
10 |
| 10 | 10 |
Let the idealist and the fanatic curse the inevitable fruits of his success, the brass he took for gold, the unexamined shadow he took for substance, the bright illusion he took for reality; he does not lament the downfall of peoples and states, the carts of bones and the lakes of blood; his grief, ... |
10 |
| 11 | 100 |
How hollow its lies and pretenses. |
10 |
| 14 | 151 |
"I trust, of course," he said, "that you are not a fool, one who harkens to myths and lies". |
10 |
| 14 | 152 |
"Myths and lies?" I said. |
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| 19 | 9 |
"What do you know of what lies across the river?" he asked. |
10 |
| 25 | 60 |
I knew enough of the forest within the wands to recognize many things outside them which might be eaten; leafy Tur-Pah, parasitic on Tur trees, of course, but, too, certain plants whose roots were edible, as the wild Sul; and there were flat ground pods in tangles which I could tear open, iron lfuit... |
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| 26 | 95 |
She put her blanket to the laundry, how clever, unaware that her scent saturates her chaining place in her kennel, that it lies in pools in each footstep she takes, that it lingers in grass, mud, and brush, even for a time in the very air through which she passes". |
10 |
| 40 | 38 |
She often strives to perpetrate an externally imposed stereotype rather than acknowledge a reality, often preferring to ignore nature in favor of convention and artifice, often preferring lies to truth, slogans to history, cliches to biology, and ideologies to blood. |
10 |
| 41 | 31 |
Certainly a thousand frustrations, fears, lies, and conflicts were avoided. |
10 |
| 43 | 232 |
"Some lies are justified in honor," said Genserich, "and some are not". |
10 |
| 43 | 240 |
"Such lies are perilous," said a fellow. |
10 |
| 43 | 434 |
Our village lies to the west, true, but on the Alexandra. |
10 |
| 50 | 194 |
The obdurate, unyielding metal affords a lovely contrast with the soft, vulnerable, helpless flesh it impounds; how it lies against it, and such. |
10 |
| 50 | 600 |
Walked away! I was nothing! I was scorned! I was miserable, distraught, devastated, furious, helpless, my hopes vanished, my world collapsed! All the seething obstinacy my world had conditioned into me erupted; all the lies and falsities of my former world reasserted themselves, proclaiming nature a... |
10 |
| 52 | 818 |
"What power," he said, angrily, "lies in that small, soft, curved body of yours, in an ankle, a shoulder, the movement of a hand, a lifting of the head, a glance, the soft, brightness of eyes, the tremor of a lip". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 330 |
Is the political agenda here so difficult to determine? Can one not sense what lies concealed behind the veils of rhetoric? Is it so difficult to detect what the advertisements are out to sell, under a hundred false labels? But faraway, and never wholly forgotten, for it lies in the blood, and genes... |
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| 7 | 246 |
"What lies within the hearts of men," he said, "is seldom absurd". |
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| 29 | 239 |
I regarded her, as I had learned to regard women on Gor, to see them unclouded by hypocrisy, pretense, convention, and lies, to see them as they are, so fascinating, so special, so different, so wonderful, so designed by nature to be owned, collared, and mastered. |
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| 30 | 69 |
"You are aware," he said, "that this village lies under the suzerainty of Lord Yamada, Shogun of the Islands". |
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| 42 | 308 |
Miss Wentworth was beautiful, even on a world contaminated with lies, hypocrisy, and pollution. |
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| 50 | 25 |
"What lies behind this door?" said Pertinax. |
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| 53 | 61 |
"Probably," I said, "but our business lies in the north". |
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| 54 | 169 |
"And therein," I said, "I think, lies the solution of our problem". |
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| 61 | 145 |
"Who knows what lies in wait, in the night". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 67 |
Who can defeat a man but himself? Let lies be spoken with confidence and authority, and repeated frequently. |
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| 1 | 68 |
Is it not the case that the lie heard many times comes to wear the mask of truth? And how dangerous it is to speak truth in a world of lies! I slipped the folder into the drawer of the filing cabinet and thrust shut the door. |
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| 2 | 237 |
Your values are cheap and gaudy, the predictable plastic lies produced for mass consumption. |
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| 33 | 201 |
"The beast lies," said he who had admitted us. |
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| 41 | 192 |
"We are no longer on Earth, trying to live its lies. |
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| 43 | 78 |
Gor lies before her, a world to conquer, a jewel to possess. |
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| 52 | 213 |
My performance had been feigned, my words empty, my actions lies. |
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| 61 | 823 |
"Consider a desperate assault on the box of honor, where the noble Albus lies helpless, unconscious, unable to either flee or defend himself, an assault by several assailants. |
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| 68 | 131 |
"There are layers of lies," said Kurik. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 94 |
How I had fought this suspicion, the dreams and reveries, this whispering, pressing conviction that I was a slave, a natural slave! Was I such that I should be a rightless possession? Did I long to be owned, to have a master? Did I long to love and serve, surrendered and vulnerable, helpless, owned,... |
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| 1 | 101 |
The pins and nails of lies try to pin us to the boards of others. |
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| 3 | 105 |
Could it be that under all the pretenses and lies, under all the conventions and cloaks, there might lurk the hereditary coils of a form of being which, in an honest world, need not be denied and suppressed, but might thrive and flourish, might lift its head, look about, and find itself once more in... |
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| 7 | 69 |
Six of us staged the diversion you prescribed at the head of the coffle and while the attention of the men of Anesidemus was thus engaged, the rest of us obtained your Luta, who now lies before you, returned to you, helpless, hooded, and bound". |
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| 11 | 8 |
And beyond the Tamber, less than an Ahn's rowing, lies Thassa, the sea. |
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| 11 | 162 |
How glad one is to put aside artifices, disguises, pretenses, conventions, disguises, and lies, and be oneself! What greater freedom is there, but to be oneself? My tunic was tiny, thin, clinging, and short. |
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| 11 | 220 |
The taverns, in their way, rather like the markets, provide a clearing house for reports and rumors, for facts and lies, for information and misinformation, and the paga girls, by default, so to speak, are likely to be amongst the best informed sources of information and misinformation in the city. |
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| 37 | 134 |
"You should not tell lies, Mira," said Dorna. |
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| 38 | 101 |
Among them, often unnoted, are the meretricious diversion, the false trail, the calculated deceit, the sowing of lies, the deliberate misdirection. |
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| 40 | 312 |
How free, truly, had I been, without a master before whom I could at last be myself? Was I, or others, really so free then? Had I not been subject to a thousand restrictions, pressures, and forces, not been governed by a thousand bondages of compliance and convention? Had I not been informed how I w... |
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| 46 | 367 |
It lies within the pelvis, hips, heart, blood, and belly of every woman". |
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