Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 7 | 212 | But who will tell the lion to be a flower? Surely, only the flowers. |
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Book 14. (7 results) Fighting Slave of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 7 | 209 | Never should one be true to oneself. |
| 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. |
| 7 | 211 | Is it not in the interest of slaves to prohibit kings from claiming their thrones? Then I was overcome with misery and guilt that I had even dared to think such thoughts! How wrong nature was! How wrong to be true to the deep themes of the animal kingdom! Did I truly need to be what I was? Why should I fulfill my needs? How wrong it was to have needs! And how far more wrong it would be to dare to fulfill them! Men, I knew, must be as flowers, not as lions, not as men. |
| 7 | 212 | But who will tell the lion to be a flower? Surely, only the flowers. |
| 7 | 213 | And who will tell a man not to be a man? Surely, too, the flowers, who might otherwise fear the tread of the heavy paw, the passing of the foot of the striding warrior. |
| 7 | 214 | Then I laughed, for it suddenly seemed to me absurd that such incredible conflicts should rage within me. |
| 7 | 215 | Surely I, a man of Earth, knew well how to live. |
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Never should one be true to oneself.
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.
Is it not in the interest of slaves to prohibit kings from claiming their thrones? Then I was overcome with misery and guilt that I had even dared to think such thoughts! How wrong nature was! How wrong to be true to the deep themes of the animal kingdom! Did I truly need to be what I was? Why should I fulfill my needs? How wrong it was to have needs! And how far more wrong it would be to dare to fulfill them! Men, I knew, must be as flowers, not as lions, not as men.
But who will tell the lion to be a flower? Surely, only the flowers.
And who will tell a man not to be a man? Surely, too, the flowers, who might otherwise fear the tread of the heavy paw, the passing of the foot of the striding warrior.
Then I laughed, for it suddenly seemed to me absurd that such incredible conflicts should rage within me.
Surely I, a man of Earth, knew well how to live.
- (Fighting Slave of Gor, Chapter 7)