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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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2 143 He added, "If you should live to earn a Home Stone".
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3 67 A man could do worse than live by such a code.
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4 72 You will live in an armed truce with the tarn.
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9 18 What would happen to Talena if we did, by some outstanding stroke of fortune, reach Ko-ro-ba? Would she be publicly impaled, returned to the mercies of the Initiates of Ar, or would she perhaps spend the rest of her days in the dungeons beneath the cylinders? Perhaps she would be permitted to live a...
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11 37 I would not live without her.
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17 112 I suppose it was a gesture, nothing but a gesture, but, pitiful though it might be, it pleased me, and, to be honest, I did not expect to live to spend the coin.
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19 17 I am Ubar of Ar, and while I live, my city will not perish".
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Book 2. (17 results) Outlaw of Gor

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5 116 Nor shall I grovel to the Priest-Kings nor live the life of shame they have allotted to me".
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6 19 Indeed, the peasant and outlaw on Gor live in an almost unspoken agreement, the peasant tending to protect the outlaw and the outlaw sharing in return some of his plunder and booty with the peasant.
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6 101 Then, to the barbaric, intoxicating music of the flute and drums, she dances for her captor, the bells on her ankles marking each of her movements, the movements of a girl stolen from her home, who must now live to please the bold stranger whose binding fiber she had felt, whose collar she wore.
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7 42 "He may live," said the spearman.
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11 168 "But," said Ost, hopefully, "I once spoke with her and I might recognize her voice if I were but allowed to live".
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12 86 Poets, on the whole, did not live well on Gor, but they never starved, were never forced to burn the robes of their caste.
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12 117 "Yes," she said, "but I do not care, for I would rather wear the camisk and have felt his kiss, than live forever behind my silver mask".
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13 42 Though we are abject beasts Fit only to live for your comfort Fit only to die for your pleasure Yet we glorify the Masks of Tharna.
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17 32 Yet I knew, as Andreas had said, I would learn to go to the trough, for I had no wish to die, and I would not continue to live on his charity.
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17 33 I smiled, wondering why it was that I, and my fellow prisoners, seemed so determined to live.
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17 34 Why was it that we chose to live? Perhaps the question is foolish, but it did not seem so in the mines of Tharna.
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19 82 We must live off the land.
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22 20 "I who was Tatrix of Tharna," she said, her eyes downcast, "did not wish to live as a slave".
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24 172 "I live!" cried a voice behind me and I turned and to my dismay I saw that Lara had followed me to the rampart.
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26 61 No man who has seen a woman in Pleasure Silk, or watched her dance, or heard the sound of a belled ankle or watched a woman's hair, unbound, fall to her waist can long live without the possession of such a delicious creature.
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26 64 Each silver mask would have six months in which she would be free to live within the city and be fed at the common tables, much as before the revolt.
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26 80 The girl Vera of Ko-ro-ba, at least for the time, will reside in Tharna, where she will live as a free woman.
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Book 3. (27 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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15 69 "How long," I asked, "does a Priest-King live?" "Long ago," said Misk, "Priest-Kings discovered the secrets of cell replacement without pattern deterioration, and accordingly, unless we meet with injury or accident, we will live until we are found by the Golden Beetle".
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33 125 I had intended to make use of that moment myself, pretending to have come with a message from Priest-Kings, to encourage man to live as I wished him to live, to respect himself and others, to be kind and to be worthy of the heritage of a rational animal, and yet of what worth would these things be i...
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35 140 I would choose so to live that I might be willing that I should live that life a thousand times, even forever.
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2 76 But on what could it live among these barren crags? For I had seen nothing on which it might prey, unless one might count the men who had entered the mountains, but their bones, scattered, white and frozen, were unsplintered and unfurrowed; they showed no evidence of having suffered the molestation ...
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8 154 "How do the people of Treve live?" I asked Vika.
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10 68 "Then there are creatures other than Priest-Kings who live here," I said.
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12 56 "For the time," said Misk, "it is the wish of the Mother that it be permitted to live as a Matok".
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12 147 "And," said Sarm, "they live on fungus and water, and wash themselves twelve times a day".
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12 234 If it is the wish of a Priest-King that they die they do so with great joy; if it is the wish of a Priest-King that they live, they are similarly delighted".
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13 112 "How does it live?" I asked.
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20 203 On the other hand the Gorean attitude is that she would be dead were it not for his brave action and thus it is his right, now that he has won her life, to make her live it for him precisely as he pleases, which is usually, it must unfortunately be noted, as his slave girl, for the privileges of a F...
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22 112 "No," said Misk, "you must hide and try to live".
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23 54 How was it that she had been captured only so recently by the creature? And if it were true that she had been captured only recently how would she have managed to live in the caverns for those days? Perhaps she might have found a sump of water but what would there have been to eat, I wondered? Perha...
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23 74 "You live".
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25 120 To live a tarn must fly, high, far and often.
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25 143 "I am pleased to see you live," she whispered.
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25 144 "And I," I said sternly, "am pleased to see that you live".
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27 30 I hoped they might be able to hide and find or steal enough food to live.
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28 41 "I admire them," said Al-Ka, "for they can see a thousand yards in the darkness by the light of a single Mul-Torch and they can live on a handful of fungus and a swallow of water a day and they are very brave and proud".
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31 76 "Do you wish to live?" asked Al-Ka of the first girl.
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31 222 I knew now why it was that the Golden Beetles were permitted to live in the Nest, why it was that Priest-Kings would not slay them, even though it might mean their own lives.
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33 120 I supposed many of the humans might even return to the Nest, where they could live and love and be happy.
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34 108 It would be hard to live now in Treve".
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35 102 "We must protect ourselves and those humans who live with us," said Misk.
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35 124 And my race—it would live on Gor—at least for the time, because of what Misk and Priest-Kings had done to preserve their world for them.
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35 127 If I should attempt to help Misk, what would this mean, ultimately? Would it not be to surrender my race to the mercies of the people of Sarm and the Priest-Kings who had served him, or would it be ultimately to protect my race until it had learned to live with itself, until it had reached the matur...
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35 141 I would choose so to live that I might stand boldly with my deed without regret throughout eternity".
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Book 4. (19 results) Nomads of Gor

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27 59 "Each of you," he said, "the Kassars—the Kataii—the Paravaci—have your own bosk and your own wagons—live so—but in time of war—when there are those who would divide us—when there are those who would fight us and threaten our wagons and our bosk and wo...
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1 50 They live on the meat and milk of the bosk.
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1 51 They are among the proudest of the peoples of Gor, regarding the dwellers of the cities of Gor as vermin in holes, cowards who must fly behind walls, wretches who fear to live beneath the broad sky, who dare not dispute with them the open, windswept plains of their world.
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1 52 The bosk, without which the Wagon Peoples could not live, is an oxlike creature.
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2 74 * * A consequence of the chronological conventions of the Wagon Peoples, of course, is that their years tend to vary in length, but this fact, which might bother us, does not bother them, any more than the fact that some men and some animals live longer than others; the women of the Wagon Peoples, i...
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8 35 The Turians, on the other hand, take in trade for their goods—obtained by manufacture or trade with other cities—principally the horn and hide of the bosk, which naturally the Wagon Peoples, who live on the bosk, have in plenty.
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8 46 Here the snow was little more than a frost that melted in the afternoon sun, and the grass was live and nourishing.
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8 117 I saw now, however, that Elizabeth Cardwell was strong, that she would not go mad, that she was determined to live.
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8 333 She would live.
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10 473 Let him live in his shame, for so much the richer will be your vengeance".
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11 361 "I am permitting her to live," he said.
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13 15 "Cut off her feet," said Kamchak, "and her nose and ears, and blind her in one eye—then release her to live as she can among the wagons".
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13 109 As Kamchak might have said, he was permitting her to live.
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21 27 "I am pleased to see you live," he said.
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21 30 I did not know if the Kamchak I had known would ever live again.
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21 136 "How do you live?" I asked.
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23 219 Kamchak, I knew, however, cared little for the slave, and would not be much concerned; yet her fate concerned me, and I hoped that she might live, that her beauty if not compassion or justice might have won her life for her, be it only as a Paravaci wagon slave; and then, too, I wondered again on th...
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24 42 "Is that the only reason that so many of Turia yet live beyond the city?" He looked at me, without expression.
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27 40 "Yes," said he, "Turia will live".
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Book 5. (23 results) Assassin of Gor

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11 289 "Is what I say not true? Is it not true that the women of weaker, conquered men, if permitted to live, have been kept only as the slaves of the conquerors, permitted to live only that they may serve the pleasures of victorious masters?" "I teach classics and ancient history," said Virginia, scarcely...
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20 233 If Sura were permitted to live I supposed Ho-Tu, too, would live, if only to be with her, to try to protect her as he could.
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3 36 They are men who commonly have an extraordinary aptitude for the game but beyond this men who have become drunk on it, men lost in the subtle, abstract liquors of variation, pattern and victory, men who live for the game, who want it and need it as other men might want gold, or others power and wome...
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3 51 On the whole, however, the Players live extremely poorly.
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4 179 The ponderous bosk, on which the Wagon Peoples live, among which are numbered the Kassars and the Tuchuks, also wear such rings, but there, of course, the ring is much larger and heavier.
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5 309 They live in a set of Master Ships, each almost an artificial planet in itself.
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5 333 "Further," said Misk, "the Others are themselves a not uninteresting species, and we have permitted certain of them, prisoners taken from disabled probe ships, to live on this world, much as we have humans".
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5 335 "They do not live in the same areas, on the whole, that humans do," said Misk.
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5 395 It is possible the Others of the ships have made contact with those permitted to live on the planet, under our laws.
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5 424 "In that city live and be happy.
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9 21 Less impressive perhaps but even more essential to the operation of the House were its kitchens, its laundries, commissaries and storerooms; its medical facilities, in which dental care is also provided; its corridors of rooms for staff members, all of whom live in the House; its library, its record...
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10 127 "A live slave?" I asked.
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11 323 I do think, of course, that the Gorean population tends to be more physically fit and mentally acute than that of Earth, but I would rate them provisionally rather than essentially superior in these respects; for example, Goreans live much out of doors and, as a very natural thing, celebrate the bea...
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12 118 "Candies!" I supposed Hup, though he doubtless spent much of his time begging, made what money he could, and vending candies at the races might help him to live.
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19 146 Slave girls who escape masters or some free women, who will not accept the matches arranged by their parents, or reject the culture of Gor, occasionally flee to these forests and live together in bands, building shelters, hunting their food, and hating men; there are occasional clashes between these...
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19 371 I would not admit to myself, even in speculation, that such a fate might befall the helpless prizes now upon the block of Ar, years of miserable, unrelieved servitude, to live at the beck and call of masters among the most cruel of Gor, existing only to give pleasure to one to whom they would be alw...
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20 332 "I am giving this prisoner an opportunity to live," said Cernus, indicating me.
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20 333 "If his champion wins, he will live; if his champion loses, he will die".
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22 102 "And I am pleased to see you live".
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22 202 "Menicius will not live to finish the race," he said.
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23 28 "I did not wish to live longer as a slave," she said.
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23 35 "He must bring blood! Sura must live!" The slave hurtled down the hall.
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23 232 "You must live," I said to him.
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Book 6. (16 results) Raiders of Gor

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3 166 "With such a bow," he said to that man, "we might live free in the marsh, free of those of Port Kar".
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3 180 "There are peasants who live along the edges of the delta, particularly to the east".
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8 724 "The Rencers," I said, "will doubtless help you live in the marsh, should you wish it.
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9 192 It is mine as much as yours!" It would be hard, certainly, for her to leave this world, beautiful, bright and green, but perilous, for the cities of Earth, to breathe again its air, to live in its cubicles, to move jostled among her uncaring crowds, to lose herself again in its mercantile grayness, ...
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9 193 There she could be anonymous, and safe, perhaps contract a desirable marriage, and live well in a large house, perhaps with servants, and conveniences, and devices.
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9 610 I knew he would not live long.
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10 177 This will sound strange, I suppose, but the workers of the arsenal, as long as they make enough to live reasonably well, are more concerned with their work, as craftsmen, than they are with considerably and indefinitely improving their economic status.
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16 229 "I," said one of the men, "wonder what it would be like to live in a city where there was a Home Stone".
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17 153 Is anything worth so much as a human life? Is not the most abject surrender preferable to the risk of its loss? Is it not better to grovel as a slave, begging the favor of life from a master, than to risk the loss of even one life? I recalled that I, once, in the far marshes of the delta of the Vosk...
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17 154 Surely there must be others more fitted than I to assume the responsibilities of such words, sending men forth to fight, to die or live.
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17 269 They live by rapine and plunder.
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18 17 I did not think the Dorna would long live in such a sea unless she might run before it.
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18 42 She would live.
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18 347 "I think they will find her beautiful, and permit her to live".
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18 362 "With this," I said, "I think you might be permitted to live".
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18 494 "I do not wish to live without you!" she cried.
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Book 7. (11 results) Captive of Gor

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6 58 It seemed to me not impossible that I might be able to live on this world.
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6 82 I could live on this world.
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6 112 "I live in New York City.
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6 147 I live in New York City, which is a city on the planet Earth.
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7 297 They live, for example, in a world in which female slavery is acknowledged, recognized and celebrated.
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8 105 "They live in the forest without men," she said, "saving those they enslave, and then sell, when tiring of them.
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11 1012 They bring us to heel, teach us to obey, and to serve, and deliciously! I wished that I was on Earth again, where slave girls might go free, live luxuriously, pamper themselves, and even, should it please them, command the weak men of Earth.
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15 56 I had indeed expected to live in the tent of the women, not in a dark shed, among work girls.
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15 1460 I am of the planet Earth! I belong in New York City! I live on Park Avenue, in a great building! I am rich! I am educated! On my world I am an important person! I am of Earth, of Earth! You cannot treat me as a simple slave!" Then I put my head in my hands.
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17 108 On Earth millions of women live empty, unrewarding lives.
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17 316 Rask of Treve must live! I had recalled how Haakon of Skjern had laughed over his captive.
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Book 8. (12 results) Hunters of Gor

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1 252 "I can live in the forests," he said.
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2 363 They live by themselves in the northern forests, by hunting, and slaving and outlawry.
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6 126 "What girl, braceleted, could live in the forests?" asked Thurnock.
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6 127 "No girl, braceleted," I said, "can live long in the forests.
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11 947 "You must strive to live up to it".
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12 136 But, in his generosity, he would free her, and return her to Ar and permit her to live, sequestered, in his palace.
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18 128 She wished to live.
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18 145 What did she care if most, or all, of her girls fell slave, as long as it was not she who found the bracelets locked on her wrists, as long as it was not she who must now live cowering as a collared girl subject to a man's pleasure, to his touch, and to the steel of his chains and the leather of his...
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18 560 "I cannot live in the forest," she wept.
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21 174 I had given her no choice but, if she would live, to deliver the tools.
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22 71 "And men, so long as they shall live, and fathers shall tell sons of fine deeds, so long as that shall the story be told of what occurred on gleaming Thassa on the twenty-fifth of Se'Kara".
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22 427 "There you would live only as a slave".
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Book 9. (23 results) Marauders of Gor

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1 197 "Do not ask the stones or the trees how to live; they cannot tell you; they do not have tongues; do not ask the wise man how to live, for, if he knows, he will know he cannot tell you; if you would learn how to live do not ask the question; its answer is not in the question but in the answer, which ...
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1 169 Do we not learn to live by doing, as we learn to speak by speaking, to paint by painting, to build by building? Those who know best how to live, sometimes it seems to me, are those least likely to be articulate in such skills.
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1 26 He was a pirate, and a cutthroat, but he was not unhappy in his death; he had died by the sword, which would have been his choice, and before he had died he had looked again upon gleaming Thassa; it is called the death of blood and the sea; he died not unhappy; men of Port Kar do not care to die in ...
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1 153 I wondered how men should live.
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1 183 But I do not know how to live.
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1 194 I did not know how to live.
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1 199 How, for example, can one proceed to do what one does not know how to do? The answer, I suspect, is that the Gorean belief is that one does, truly, in some way, know how to live, though one may not know that one knows.
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1 207 "Do not ask how to live, but, instead, proceed to do so".
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1 208 But how could I live, I, a cripple, huddled in the chair of a captain, in a darkened hall? I was rich, but I envied the meanest herder of verr, the lowest peasant scattering dung in his furrows, for they could move as they pleased.
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1 211 How should one live? In the codes of the warriors, there is a saying: "Be strong, and do as you will.
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1 434 I wondered how to live.
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1 488 I wondered how to live.
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1 489 "Do not ask how to live, but, instead, proceed to do so".
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1 552 The refrain ran through my mind: "Do not ask how to live, but, instead, proceed to do so".
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1 580 He had, finally, succeeded in making his way into the marshes, in the Vosk's vast delta, where he had been taken in by rencers, who live on islands, woven of rence reeds, in the delta.
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2 115 The Gorean feeling generally is that there is no reason why Initiates, or only Initiates, should live forever.
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3 50 "Those who would live," called out Forkbeard, "lie on your stomachs".
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9 67 In this fashion a girl may live on the oar.
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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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12 4 On the other hand I was not certain that I had much longer to live.
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13 66 "Long live the Forkbeard!" cried a man in the throng.
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17 9 "If you live, you will be more than kissed".
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21 188 You have dishonored me!' 'Let me live!' cried the poisoner.
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Book 10. (20 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 83 Man, on Earth, had finally succeeded, after long centuries, in creating a society in which he had no essential place; he had, at last, built a house in which he could not live, in which he had left not one room suitable for human habitation; he called it a home; in it he was a stranger; his habitat,...
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3 240 "I live but a short way from here," he said.
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3 243 "Does he live near here?" I asked.
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8 247 "You live under the threat of the whip?" "Yes," she said.
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11 57 Those who live at the larger, more populous oases can learn in the baths.
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11 269 "In the Tahari," said Hassan, "it is well to be of the Tahari, if one would live".
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14 194 Thus, even if they thought they might live for a time in the desert, in trying to flee, they would have little idea of even the direction to take in their flight.
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14 460 I had much to live for.
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14 553 It was Hassan! "You live!" I cried.
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15 21 Men live in some of them, for weeks at a time.
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18 61 Try to live".
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18 69 "Do you live?" "Yes," said he, from near me.
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19 26 "No such beast could live in the desert," said Hassan.
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19 27 "No," I said, "such a beast could not live in the desert".
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19 68 "No Kur can live in the desert," he said.
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19 103 "We may live two days without water".
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24 260 "Because," I said, "such features, such charms, make it more likely that you will be permitted to live, provided you strive zealously to be fully and perfectly pleasing in all respects".
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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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24 798 Males who satisfy their nature are vital and joyful, and, statistically, live long; those who deny their nature are miserable and, statistically, shorter lived, their tortured body chemistry falling prey frequently to hideous diseases".
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26 555 She would be well advised to try, if she wished to live.
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Book 11. (15 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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5 628 What would be done with me? Surely they would not blame me! Surely they would understand that I was only a slave girl! Surely they must understand that I had had to obey my master! Would they so much as give me the opportunity to please them—and as what I was, a slave? Would they find me attr...
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2 514 Lying in the bloodied grass, he realized he had been permitted to live.
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2 786 I did not know what to believe or how to live.
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2 962 Sometimes, as she becomes animated, she rises a bit from her heels, sometimes her hands move on her thighs, her shoulders and belly move, her head moves, her eyes are live and vital, she speaks and laughs, and, radiantly, every inch, every bit, of her alive, converses lyrically and delightedly.
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8 128 It set me the pace which I must make, if I would live.
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9 422 "Where did you live?" asked Verr Tail.
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9 1380 I did not know if I could live, so led.
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11 407 "You seem to know nothing of the movements and glances, the positions, attitudes and postures, the expressions, of a slave girl, let alone the techniques, crafts and subtleties that may determine whether or not men permit you to live".
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15 49 "I am grateful, so grateful, to you, Elicia!" "It is well," she said, "that a slave girl is grateful to her mistress, that she is permitted to live and is not slain".
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17 62 Those who had survived the pox would presumably live to procreate themselves, on the whole presumably transmitting their immunity or relative immunity to their offspring.
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22 30 I did not know if I could now live without them.
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22 31 I resolved to put my mistress from my mind, and live for the moment, for the joy, the men, the ship and the sea.
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22 456 "If Mistress would live," I said, "Mistress must do her best".
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24 225 I hoped that I might be permitted to live, and be given an opportunity to atone for the grievous wrong I had done my master.
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24 262 "I shall now ask you a simple question," he said, "and you will answer it immediately and truthfully, if you would live for another five Ihn".
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Book 12. (38 results) Beasts of Gor

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2 604 Perhaps some can live by fishing until the fall, and the return of the black sea sleen".
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2 610 Like many simple, primitive peoples, isolated and remote, they could live or die without being noticed.
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2 733 They live on garbage cast into the canals, and on bound slaves who have not been pleasing.
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3 268 It is pleasant to live on a world where there are female slaves.
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3 269 I would choose to live on no other sort of world.
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3 445 Would she be permitted to live? The fruit lay discarded beside her.
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3 1145 As hunters they live with blood and death.
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4 598 Seldom do they live long enough to be impaled upon the walls of a city.
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4 668 "You will live".
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4 689 "You will live," he assured the merchant.
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5 77 "Only red hunters can live in such a place," whispered Samos.
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6 695 "Tarns cannot live at that latitude," I said.
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9 45 "It seems," said he to me, "that you will live, if only for an Ahn longer".
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9 94 They live waiting for a master.
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11 220 "You are pretty," I said, "perhaps men might be persuaded to let you live".
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11 398 I did not know if it would live.
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11 479 "I will live on the herd," I said.
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11 483 "I cannot live alone in the north," she said.
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11 516 "Might not men be persuaded," she asked, "to let me live?" I smiled, recalling what once I had suggested to her.
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12 135 They live generally in scattered, isolated communities.
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12 163 Perhaps that is why they live where they do.
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12 166 Where no others have desired to live the Innuit, sociable and loving, have found their bleak refuge.
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12 494 "I suggest, if you wish to live, that you apply your intelligence to the task".
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13 99 "They live in terror of displeasing you in the least".
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15 116 Freedom permits a woman to live without men.
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15 227 "Do you want to live?" I asked.
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15 944 "Goreans live simply, and do not much approve of cumbersome furniture".
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15 1122 "I could live for such a sensation!" she whispered.
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15 1124 "I could live for these sensations," she whispered.
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15 1125 "I could live for them!" "Certainly," I said, "for you are a slave".
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25 115 And even if a red hunter should become lost it is normally possible for him, at least for a time, to live off the land.
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26 311 "I am an even better fellow to live beside," said Imnak.
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26 326 "Do you wish to live?" asked Imnak.
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27 58 "Do you wish to live?" he asked.
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31 112 "The Kur can live alone.
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36 59 "I live apart from the People," said Karjuk.
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37 115 "Nothing could live in it," I said.
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37 122 "Nothing could live there," said a hunter.
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Book 13. (10 results) Explorers of Gor

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1 487 It is also inhabited by the rencers, who live upon rence islands, woven of the rence reed, masters of the long bow, usually obtained in trade with peasants to the east of the delta.
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3 61 Some free girls, runaways, vagabonds, girls of no family or position, live about port cities, scavenging as they can, begging, stealing, sleeping at night in crates and under bridges and piers.
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6 249 But my small test, affirmative in its results, convinced me that she was probably slave enough already to be permitted to live at least until she were thrown naked at his feet.
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11 294 "Let her live".
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19 194 Many men desire to live there but few, I think, could bear its burdens.
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32 200 In the level of the emergents there live primarily birds, in particular parrots, long-billed fleers, and needle-tailed lits.
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32 239 And yet here, in the rain forest, the natural architecture of sun, and shade, and growth, seems a vital celebration of life and its glory, not a consequence of aberrations and the madness of abnegations, not an invention of dismal men who have foresworn women, even slaves, and certain vegetables, an...
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32 791 I knew that, if I were to live, I must please him, and please him well, and as a slave".
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35 106 Now she was no more than another of my slaves, and would live and be treated as such.
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49 83 Why would the drums sound just now?" "Then Shaba may live," I said.
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Book 14. (12 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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3 451 "Whether you live or die is up to my whim," she said.
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7 53 It was my hope that if I obeyed my masters or mistresses, and well pleased them, I might be permitted to live.
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7 215 Surely I, a man of Earth, knew well how to live.
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7 216 I had been taught how to live, and if, in abiding by the denials and negativities of my world, I was made unhappy and miserable, what did that matter, truly, in the larger scheme of things? Who did I think I was? Did I think that I was important? Is a lion, or a man, truly, more important than an in...
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7 758 "How their slaves must live in terror of them," she said.
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13 311 It should also be mentioned that it is not unusual nor impractical for such troops, which are usually in fairly small numbers, to live off the game-rich Gorean countryside.
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16 37 It is said on Gor that only slaves, outlaws and Priest-Kings, rumored to be the rulers of Gor, reputed to live in the remote Sardar Mountains, are without caste.
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18 121 "Do you wish to live?" he asked.
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21 174 "How clever you scoundrels are! You engage me in conversation, and then, you shirkers, you dally in the performance of your fitting and lowly labors! Do you think you are free persons who may stop to pass the time of day? No, you are collared brutes! Now work, you neck-ringed sleen, if you would liv...
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23 81 The stable sluts live in terror of her, fearing that because of her false reports they might lose their ears or feet.
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25 105 "Krondar will probably kick you a few times, that your ribs may be broken, or pull you by the hair to your knees, that he may break loose your teeth or shatter your jaw, but you will live".
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32 433 "Perhaps then you will be permitted to live".
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Book 15. (10 results) Rogue of Gor

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22 128 On Earth politics and nature do not live in the same house, and, indeed, nature does not live in a house at all.
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1 315 I have learned to live and to feel.
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1 347 The intelligent woman, of course, now put to her knees, quickly grasps what she now is, and what is expected of her; she now realizes that she is now, presumably for the first time in her life, in the presence of masters, authentic masters of women; she is well aware of the collar on her neck, and i...
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4 501 It is the way they want to be, the absolute way they want to live.
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8 59 Let him live!" But the fellow did not even glance at Tasdron.
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10 123 "Where do you live?" she asked.
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21 117 "I am only a slave, permitted to live on the sufferance of men, that she may please them," she said.
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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...
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28 127 "I have tried to live up to your trust," said Callisthenes.
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28 310 Yet to live and work in a place, and to be of a place, are, in Gorean thinking, quite different things.
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Book 16. (7 results) Guardsman of Gor

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16 539 "Will they live?" I asked Callimachus.
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17 838 She is to be permitted to live, though it be on his sufferance.
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19 827 It is my hope that you will permit me to live".
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20 1080 "I shall," he said, "if she wishes to live".
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20 1720 That is how I want to live! It is what is right for me! I cannot be complete without it! I beg to be mastered! Chain me at your pleasure, command me, put me to your slave ring, whip me when you wish.
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20 1807 He is permitted to live as a convenience to free persons.
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20 1831 Accordingly, many a master/slave relationship is such that the submitted slave, hopelessly in love with her master, dares not express her feelings, and the master, unwilling to live without his slave, and who would die for her, is harsh with her, and treats her with great severity, as the lowest and...
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Book 17. (21 results) Savages of Gor

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1 781 They are permitted to live as they will, where they may, on Gor, following even their ancient laws and customs, providing these do not violate the Weapons Laws and Technology Restrictions.
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1 802 They seem to live for hunting and internecine warfare, which seems to serve almost as a sport and a religion for them.
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1 1079 They live in a world in which danger is not unknown.
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1 1080 Surely they could live otherwise, but they have not chosen to do so.
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1 1081 They live with the stars and the winds, and the kaiila and kailiauk.
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1 1086 He must then live as a woman.
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2 52 "Few red savages live outside of the Barrens," I said, "and those who do would presumably be as unfamiliar with them as would be anyone else in their circumstances".
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2 301 Some hunters use a live verr but this is less effective as the animal, squealing, and terrified, is difficult to drive from the side of the boat.
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7 86 "The tavern girls live in terror of them," said another fellow.
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9 32 The mobility afforded by the kaiila and the abundance of the kailiauk doubtless made this choice possible, the choice of the widely ranging hunter, the proud and free warrior, over the farmer, denied distant horizons, he who must live at the mercy of the elements and in bondage to his own soil.
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11 68 The girl, then, can never stand again, but must, if she is permitted to live, drag herself about by her hands.
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13 464 Were self-serving and self-seeking to be no longer permitted to me? Must I now live not for myself but for others? My reality was now different, but seemingly a thousand times more real than what I had hitherto taken to be reality.
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14 690 "The individuals in these communities are bound to the soil and owned collectively by the tribes within whose lands they are permitted to live.
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15 104 What if he should interpret her gaze as suggesting the least insubordination or insolence? Are they truly prepared to have the soles of their feet lashed or to live on bread crusts for the next five days? But, on the other hand, there is, on Gor, in circles of the mastery, no discouragement, commonl...
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16 207 It had been only that he had little to live for.
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16 433 It is pleasant that such women live, particularly when they are put in collars and chains.
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17 679 "I do not want to live a life of hypocrisy," she said.
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17 680 "Doubtless many live such a life in the compound of the Waniyanpi," I said.
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17 733 "Do the savages live in the compounds?" she asked.
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17 777 "I am to be sent to live with Waniyanpi!" "That is your punishment," I said.
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19 384 "If you return to camp," said Canka, "you will live as a woman.
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Book 18. (14 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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1 241 The first time he had been put in the dress of a woman and forced to live as a woman, performing the work of a woman and being referred to in the feminine gender.
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1 451 From that time on he had seemed to live for little more than killing and vengeance, not only against the Yellow Knives but against any enemy, or reputed enemy, of the Kaiila.
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12 554 You are to feel as a slave, and live and love as a slave!" "Yes, Master," she wept.
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14 382 I want to live, and feel!" She was Gorean woman.
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14 559 It is better, perhaps, for one who must live on porridge never to know the taste of meat and wine.
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14 560 If one must live with the Waniyanpi, perhaps it is best to be of the Waniyanpi.
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26 102 "It will now be decided, my dear," I told the girl, "whether you will live or die".
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26 111 "It seems," I told the girl, "that you may be permitted to live, at least for a time".
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34 423 "You live!" he cried.
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39 172 "Too," she said, "in bondage we find that we live our truth.
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41 143 We might unknowingly live in the midst of dimensions and wonders, things beyond the touch of our tools, things beyond the reach of our imaginations and intellects, things too different to know.
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42 45 "The Kaiila must live!" I said.
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44 259 But was she not only another female? By the red savages, you must understand, white women are regarded as slave stock, at best, suffered to live only as degraded, abused domestic beasts.
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56 17 "If you are perfectly cooperative," I had told the terrorized girl, "you may, afterward, be permitted to live as a woman—and a slave".
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Book 19. (9 results) Kajira of Gor

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30 154 How, too, could I live in the city? I might try to live by begging and scavenging garbage for a time as do those vagrant free women sometimes called she-urts, but I, being collared, could never pass for one.
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3 703 They are too deep, too real! But what if one should think them, and what if one should live them! I did not know what to do, or think.
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6 364 They live in it.
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23 149 Or was it the action of a terrified woman sensing she had no option, if she would live, merely the act of a woman desperately bargaining for her very life with the only coin at her disposal, her beauty.
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26 121 In a sense, you must decide, really, what you are, and how you wish to live.
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27 43 "This question, now that you are true slaves, is basically a question of whether you will choose to live or choose to die.
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33 656 No longer could we live without it.
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33 658 We would live for their caress, and to please them.
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36 867 As an analogy, let us suppose that somehow, by magic if you wish, or some sort of hibernation, or through some sort of suspended animation, that one had never had food or drink, and then suppose that suddenly, somehow, someone had changed all that, that someone had done something to you, and that su...
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Book 20. (16 results) Players of Gor

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1 366 "It is another to be permitted to live".
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1 416 "These things may now seem hard to understand," said Samos, "but they, and their reality, if you are permitted to live, will soon become clear".
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1 767 It was he who would decide whether she would live or die.
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1 788 "Do you beg to live?" he asked.
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1 789 "Yes, I beg to live, my Master," she said.
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2 632 "We live from day to day.
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2 1659 You have not been forced to live with and endure slave heat.
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6 112 No longer now do they aspire to the privileges and prerogatives of the free woman; let her continue to live in her house of inhibition and convention; let her have her frigidities, jealousies and shams; they have found something a thousand times more precious, their meaning, their significance, thei...
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8 151 Similarly urts of the sort which live on garbage cast into the canals will often, unhesitantly, attack swimmers.
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9 30 Perhaps, on the other hand, given his hatred, and the shame in which he seemed to live, he might not have found the cruelty of a brigand's knife that unwelcome.
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9 256 See that you struggle to live up to our high standards".
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12 198 "I live for Kaissa," he said.
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12 719 "It is your recommendation, then," asked Boots, "that she be permitted to live?" "Yes," he said.
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21 216 "Who knows? You might even be permitted to live, perhaps as a blinded, tongueless slave chained to the bench of a Cosian galley".
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22 55 "I will live?" inquired Petrucchio.
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22 59 "You must live, dear friend," averred Andronicus.
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Book 21. (27 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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2 15 Most Gorean peasants live in such villages, many of them palisaded, which they leave in the morning to tend their fields, to which they return at night after their day's labors.
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2 71 In these times only soldiers can live".
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2 106 "Who but such as you can live in these times?" I gave her some bread from my pack, from a rep-cloth draw-sack, and a bit of dried meat, paper thin, from its tied leather envelope.
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2 182 "You may live," said the free woman.
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4 5 "It will live," said one of the men, a sitting warrior near us.
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4 26 "The bosk will live," they add.
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4 28 Most often little official notice is taken of them, no war challenges being issued, and they are regarded merely as peripheral, unwelcome itinerants, uninvited guests, dangerous, temporary visitors with whom the local folks must for a time live uneasily.
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4 80 It will be permitted to live.
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4 128 "And what is it like to live there?" "It is very beautiful," I said.
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4 129 "And although I am not a citizen of Ar, nor of Telnus, the capital of Cos, it is doubtless easier to live in such places than among the wagons.
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8 108 "Even the jard desires to live," I said.
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16 146 "I want you to live," said the woman.
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16 790 "In time," said the woman, "you will live to please men, and desire to do so.
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21 137 What consolation is it for others if they should eventually discover that they live in a world of facts, if disillusioned they should eventually recognize their errors, living to see the harvests of their own foolishness, living to see their civilization split asunder, to see their world fall bleedi...
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22 165 I assumed he must live in the rooms somewhere.
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22 307 "Thousands live in them".
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24 608 "It is amusing," he said, "that you held slaves in such great contempt, and treated them with such cruelty, for such is what you were all the time, and as such, revealed, in your full truth, you will now live".
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25 189 I have been able to sense here the ecstasies of bondage, the ecstasies of a life obligatorily sensual, a life under strict discipline, a life where I must obey, a life where I will, and must, surrender myself totally and, subject to penalties, and even death, if I am displeasing, live thenceforth so...
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25 415 In time she would come to understand that and would then, fearfully, live in love, rejoicing.
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25 551 Female slaves, so helpless in their collars, so much at the mercy of any free person whatsoever, live in terror of such females, for they know that they despise and hate them.
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25 1289 Indeed, they are permitting her to live.
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25 2033 "I want to live for you, and to serve you in all ways!" I kissed her.
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26 994 "I do not live in that direction," she said.
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26 1024 Don't you really think so? What self-respecting rapist or slaver would be abroad at this hour? What would he expect to find? A miniature domestic sleen among the garbage cans? A brawny teamster bringing in produce from the country? Similarly I assume you live in a frequently patrolled, well-to-do di...
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26 1898 They may have been led from cities in triumph as exquisite prizes, in slave lines as naked, luscious, collared loot, and then what would you have to say? That no one had found you pretty enough, or interesting enough, or desirable enough, to take you and bring you in for money? That you had to call ...
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26 1914 Similarly many women are well guarded, or live in well-protected areas.
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27 195 This is good for them and helps them to become more open, more honest, about their needs and desires, and about what they most want to be, and how they most want to live, a condition and a way of life which were no more than a lovely, wayward dream on Earth, but became for them, astonishingly, with ...
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Book 22. (16 results) Dancer of Gor

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2 113 "It tells of a world very different from that in which you live," he said, "a world very much simpler, and more basic, a world more fundamental, and less hypocritical, and far fresher and cleaner, in its way, and more alive and wild than yours".
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4 70 You are going to be here, and live on its terms, and exactly so, my modern woman, my hateful little charmer, for the rest of your life".
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7 111 However, I thought, it might be nice, other things being equal, to live in one of these lovely cities.
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9 284 I did have a live body, some understanding of my womanhood, and a desire to please men.
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9 590 It was that for which she must now live, only that.
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23 65 "I suppose that these fellows out here, with the digging, the labor and the whip, have little to live for," she remarked, "except perhaps vengeance".
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24 323 "Do not kill me, Master," I begged another, "but let me live, I beg you, to serve and please you, and with all the fullness of the female!" "Perhaps," he said, licking his lips.
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27 150 No longer now, knowing what she now knew about herself, could she live as a free woman.
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29 1030 "I will do anything for you!" "Do you think you are a free woman," he asked, "bargaining for the life of her lover, willing to surrender all her fortune that he might live, willing perhaps even to strip herself and make herself my slave, to serve me thenceforth with all perfections, if I will but sp...
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29 1148 No longer then do you need to live in terror, shrinking back at every strange sound, every shadow in the darkness".
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29 1225 "Do you truly think we would have let you live, if you had slain a free man?" he asked.
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29 1399 "She may live," he said.
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29 1406 I did not wish to live without you.
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29 1628 They believe that it is a man's deeds which truly live after him, and that the difference, great or small, which they make in the world, the difference which he made, for having been there, is what is important.
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33 273 I wanted to tell him of my love, to tell him that I would die for his collar, that I would a thousand times rather perish at his side than leave him! How could I live without him? It was such as he that I had been bred to serve! It was to such as he that I was born to render obeisance.
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34 753 It is possible to live by truths one hesitates to acknowledge.
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Book 23. (16 results) Renegades of Gor

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2 537 They had all chosen, it seemed, more or less recently, to live dangerously, perhaps but an inch from the collar.
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2 549 They had all, it seemed, more or less recently, chosen to live dangerously.
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2 550 But perhaps they had chosen to live a little too dangerously.
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3 48 With older birds, on the other hand, captured wild tarns, for example, the training usually takes the form of tying fresh meat on live animals, and then, when the tarn is accustomed to eating both, effecting the transition to the prepared meat.
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5 639 I recalled that she had chosen to live dangerously, relying much on duping men to make her way through the world.
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8 433 Now I shall be forever empty unless I am permitted to live my truth, what I truly am".
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9 228 "I want to live for a master," she said, suddenly, looking at me, "and to give him pleasure.
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11 18 Some girls, too, coming to understand the sensuous connotations of their names on Gor come to regard them then no longer as common, or plain, names, but, like the Goreans, as thrilling, beautiful names, and come to revel in them, and try to live up to them, as superb slaves.
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15 402 Let me live, that I may serve you as the most abject and loving of slaves,' and such sayings," I said.
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16 226 In a sense, then, she tries to live a lie.
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16 388 "Surely it might be difficult to live with such a hidden truth," I said.
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21 78 And for her part, she rejoices that she is helpless to escape him, that she truly belongs to him, that she is truly his, legally and otherwise, and that she must, as she intensely desires to do, continue to live for service and love.
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21 147 "Do you wish to live?" he inquired.
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21 582 But, too, she had little doubt, at least in her case, of the bondage to which she, if permitted to live, would be likely to be consigned.
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21 1046 They would live for their masters.
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24 755 Most Goreans, save for occasional sacrifices, observations, donations to temples, and such, called for by the caste of Initiates, who claim to mediate between men and Priest-Kings, live their lives without much concern for Priest-Kings, and seem to hope that the Priest-Kings will return the favor, w...
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Book 24. (13 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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6 38 Rencers live in the delta.
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18 309 Too, I had supplies, and could, of course, manage to live in the marsh, off its own offerings.
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19 941 I need you desperately!" "Rencer women," I said, "live in the delta".
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19 1141 To be sure many slave girls are worked hard and live in fear of the whip.
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26 180 "In many critical situations," I said, "such as the burning and sacking of cities, raids on caravans, and such, she, as she is a domestic animal, like the sleen and tarsk, is much more likely to survive, to be permitted to live, to be spared, than the free female.
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27 97 "How have you managed to live in the delta?" he asked.
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27 188 "We cannot live in the delta," he said, "and we cannot escape it".
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28 124 "Ar must live!" said another.
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37 167 It may continue to live, after a fashion, but then as twisted, poisoned, starved, diminished, stunted, cropped, and clipped into unnatural and bizarre shapes, and so on.
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48 7 "I can no longer live without this!" she said.
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48 118 "I cannot live without her," he said.
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48 202 "I do have something to live for," he said, grimly.
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48 203 "I can live for vengeance, deep and profound, terrible, vengeance against Cos and all things Cosian!" "Certainly," I said.
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Book 25. (19 results) Magicians of Gor

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27 162 "I love you! I will be hot, devoted and dutiful! I am yours! I will live to please you! I will live to love and serve you! I love you, my master!" She kissed him again, and again, about the feet, the ankles, the sides of the calves.
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2 198 She wanted to give all of herself to Marcus, irreservedly, to hold nothing back, to live for him, if need be, to die for him.
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6 22 So, too, similarly, some homeowners who live on busy streets charge a fee for the use of their exterior walls.
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6 74 Rather let us live in peace and brotherhood.
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9 187 "You chose to live, to work for the salvation of Ar!" cried a man.
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9 316 No longer had you even citizenship! Because of what you once had been, the daughter of Marlenus of Ar, you were permitted to live in the Central Cylinder.
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10 445 She understands that it may be difficult to please such a master, one likely to be harsh and demanding, who may despise her, who may think nothing of subjecting her to cruel punishments, and that she must accordingly, if she would even live, strive desperately to be pleasing to him.
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10 459 "The beast who was born to live on flesh is not to be nourished on the nibblings of urts," I said.
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13 131 "And it is here I will live!" "That seems to me wise," I said.
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13 178 Does the poodle remember? Does the wolf live in the poodle yet? I do not know.
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14 536 "I think she may be permitted to live," I said.
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14 557 "I now wish to live for the chain, the whip, and love".
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18 16 "Not all folk in the theater and such live as well as they might," I said.
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19 786 I live to be the obedient, grateful, vulnerable object of such lust and power.
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19 958 "It is thusly that I want to live!" she said.
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21 295 Nothings which are permitted to live to serve your betters.
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24 230 Such live for love.
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27 308 On Gor, slave girls live in terror of that whip.
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27 341 One could live, for example, in many cities, though not in contemporary Ar, with its press on housing and shortages of food, for years on such resources".
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Book 26. (26 results) Witness of Gor

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4 451 "Do you wish to live?" he asked.
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4 478 "On the other hand, if you prove superb, truly superb, you might eventually be shown a certain mercy, at least in the sense of being permitted to live".
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6 151 Had I moved thusly long ago, in a former life, before a prince of some royal house on the Nile, before some caliph in his cool, white palace abutting the slow waters of the Tigris, in the house of some oligarch overlooking the Tiber? Or were these things locked in the very cells of my body, in the m...
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8 209 Here I was free to be what I was! Here I might feel, truly feel! Here one need not live as if indoors, sheltered from sunlight and rain, here one might look upon truth as it was in itself, not as it might be distorted in the labyrinths of prescribed protocols, here one might touch real things, like ...
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10 884 "You do wish to live, do you not?" asked the jailer.
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10 973 "Remember that you would like to live," said the jailer.
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10 1030 He wanted me to live.
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11 157 It seemed then that, at least for a time, I would be permitted to live.
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11 542 "Rejoice that you live," said another.
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12 966 "She may desire to live".
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13 1333 I had been told I must live a lie.
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13 1335 But here I had learned I must live the truth, and must be true to myself.
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14 1305 "If you would live," he said to the Lady Constanzia, "learn your collar quickly, little vulo.
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16 287 Did they sense the danger we might pose to them, if they were weak, or permissive, or lenient? Was that why they were as they were? Was that why they put us in collars and kept us at their feet, because they knew us so well? But how could we be women if they were not men? Or had they profited from s...
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18 212 She had something now, you see, of the eagerness, the vitality, the interest, the curiosity, the awakened nature, the readiness to live and experience, of a slave.
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19 635 We often live in fear, of course, of the strongest girls amongst us.
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25 9 "And I am pleased you live, little Janice," said he, "and you, too, Lady Constanzia".
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29 681 "And how shall I live till then?" she asked.
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37 15 Such things are mammalian or mammalianlike, however, in the sense of giving live birth and suckling the young.
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37 1080 "Could he live in such passages?" "Perhaps, on urts," said the pit master.
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38 55 "No man can live alone in the mountains," said the officer.
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40 149 "I will not live without you".
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40 151 "I am a beast, a monster, hated and shunned, so born, and so condemned to live".
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40 161 "Do you think that I can live, having caused you to compromise your honor?" The pit master turned about, crying out with misery, his fists clenched.
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40 247 "How am I to live with myself?" asked the pit master.
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45 13 I hoped rather now only that I would be permitted to live.
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Book 27. (29 results) Prize of Gor

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18 170 She did not know if this was because those of Earth, both men and women, tended to live unwittingly in eccentric, unnatural cultural prisons, products of monstrous, lingering historicalities, denying themselves and their natures, submitting mindlessly, uncritically, to pathological, stunting, life-s...
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22 6 Goreans do not eschew emotion; eagerness, zeal, warmth, heat and passion are common with them; they tend to be vehement, hearty, cordial, enthusiastic, ardent, impetuous; they are quick to anger, quick to forget, quick to laugh; they do not pretend to subscribe to obvious falsehoods; they value trut...
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10 237 Without symbols, she wondered, would it not be difficult to live on more than the surface of our being.
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11 639 She would later learn to live for such things, a kind word, an approving glance, a crust cast to the floor before her, a caress.
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15 323 She wanted to cry out that she loved him, with all the helpless, vulnerable love of a female slave, that she wanted to serve him, to love him, to live for him.
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16 614 You will live for a kind word and a caress.
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16 1085 "Be grateful that you are permitted to live, slave girl," said Cotina.
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17 842 I cannot live without them.
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17 1046 "Serve your masters well and you may be permitted to live".
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18 708 If we would live, we must try to be good slaves".
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19 635 This world is so natural! How fearful, she thought, to be a woman and live on a natural world! And yet, she thought, the thought startling her, I would not be elsewhere than on this world.
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19 642 Better a collar on Gor than a throne on Earth! How glorious to be a woman and live upon a natural world, a world in which I must occupy my rightful place in the order of nature, my place at the feet of masters! The beat of the tarn's wings above her was steady, and smooth.
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20 871 "Long live Cos!" said the older lad.
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20 872 "Long live Cos!" said the younger.
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22 169 Ellen knew little of slave dance, for her first master, called on Gor 'Mirus', had determined that she would be only slightly trained, that she might be sold as a substantially ignorant girl, trained perhaps only to the extent that she might prove satisfactory enough to be permitted to live, that sh...
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22 197 How else would I want to live? I rejoice to be at their mercy.
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22 338 That is what I want to live for! I have been chained on the concourse side, she told herself, that I may be more easily seen.
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23 261 You brought me here in hatred, and for your amusement, but now, to your fury, you learn that I have become a true slave, and, I think, an attractive one! You are furious that I have found myself on this world, that I am young, beautiful, healthy, eager, ready, passionate, that I desire to love and s...
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25 1063 She is a den of cowards, beggars and traitors! She lives at the sufferance of Cos!" "Long live Cos!" cried more than one man in the crowd.
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25 1071 "Long live Cos!" shouted a man.
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26 966 Would they even have recognized her, their former colleague and teacher, now a commanded, performing slave girl? Would her female students weep with need and desire to so serve as well, to find therein one of the thousand rewarding, fulfilling, beautiful meanings of their sex? Would not her male col...
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26 1600 Many Gorean slave girls live in terror of having their ears pierced.
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27 685 It is clear, now, that the myths and legends of Priest-Kings have been invented by the caste of Initiates, in order to exploit superstitious terror and live as parasites on the earnings of others".
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27 884 "If you would have your captain live," cried Arconious, "throw down your weapons, and be on your way!" "Throw down your weapons!" cried he who was held by Arconious.
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27 2043 "You might be permitted to live".
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27 3361 She will live in terror of free women, and look to men to protect her from them.
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29 364 "I do not think I would care to live on your world," he said.
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30 668 Do you know how desirable you are, truly? If so, do you live in trepidation, fearing strong hands, thongs and a collar? Do you think these things go unnoticed, or are noticed only by weakened, helpless males of Earth, reduced and crippled, whom you secretly despise for what they have permitted to be...
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30 780 As a female slave you will live the most degraded and the most beautiful of lives.
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Book 28. (22 results) Kur of Gor

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3 165 "Why did you ask if I wished to live?" she asked, "Because," said he, "if you do wish to live, it will be in your interest to learn to speak Gorean, as quickly and as fluently as you can".
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1 59 Near the top a tube descends periodically, automatically, through which liquid, if the occupant chooses to live, may be drawn by the mouth into his body.
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1 118 Life is very real where they live it, at the edge of a sword.
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1 675 Who knows, say, what might have been introduced into the container while he slept, which might have satisfied the sense of vengeance of outraged Priest-Kings, perhaps a coil of squirming osts, a live sleen, successions of urts each time he slept, which he might try to kill, and on which might feed, ...
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1 905 Then, humiliated, lost to honor, broken as a warrior and man, shamed and degraded, mocked, they might do with him as they pleased, perhaps doing away with him in some grisly, amusing fashion on some holiday, or even turning him loose, if they wished, naked in some wilderness, to live as he could wit...
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2 183 Too, it should be noted that much of the meat available in the Steel Worlds is not obtained in the hunt or live kill, but is processed from slaughtered animals, the meat of which is then dried, salted, or frozen, for future consumption.
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3 98 "What is that?" "If you live long enough," he said, "you will be taught".
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3 157 "Do you wish to live?" he asked.
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3 425 "I want to live," she said.
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21 497 Did it truly think the struggle was for the weapon? Did it not understand that the struggle was for who should live and who should die? Suddenly Grendel released the weapon and thrust out his massive clawed paw and the fingers of his right paw thrust through the left eye of the Kur and the rest of t...
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28 47 Who would wish to live without them? And the love of a slave for her master! Who can understand that love, who has not had a slave at his feet? Peisistratus looked about.
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36 67 "That is possible," said Cabot, "but he might prefer to live".
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40 199 "We may not live out the day," said Cabot.
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40 218 "We may not live out the day?" she said.
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43 46 Live a moment longer.
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43 135 "First," said Cabot, "we must free the living cattle, those on the hooks, and drive those in the shoot, and in the pens, into the open, where they might have a chance to live".
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43 456 If Agamemnon is successful, humans may yet be permitted to live, and serve, in the world, and I myself will speak on your behalf, to win you pardon for your crime against the world".
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44 293 "I trust so, if she would live," said the Kur.
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46 37 "I, myself," said Cabot, "would prefer to live, even if somewhat less bravely".
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50 5 "You might then live," he said.
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53 63 "How would she live? She could starve, or thirst, unable to approach water.
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53 182 "How do the wombs live?" asked Cabot.
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Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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2 142 In one, we might suppose a given woman who, with some good fortune, might live a life of, say, some eighty to ninety years, and live to watch her interest and beauty fade, and observe her once lovely body submit to the slow degradations of age, watch it dry, wither, suffer, decay, and weaken until i...
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Book 31. (2 results) Conspirators of Gor

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37 56 "Is it not better to live for a time, than not to live, at all?" "The beasts are formidable," said Desmond, "but, within the laws of Priest-Kings, they are not invincible.
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46 107 Let the gods live their lives; let men live theirs.
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Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor

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54 179 Is it only that they have failed to sully soil and water, refused to create poisoned atmospheres, refused to reduce and shame themselves, had no interest in ascending prescribed treadmills, placed in the midst of nothing, leading nowhere? Can the steps of a false journey not be retraced? It is possi...
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Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor

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15 329 "Kajira," called Tullius Quintus back and down to me, I thought from yards away, "do you live?" "I live, Master," I called back.
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