Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 7 | 217 | Above all do not let the flowers know that there may be a man or a lion amongst them. |
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Book 14. (7 results) Fighting Slave of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 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. |
| 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 insect or a flower? If there were more flowers than lions, or men, must not it be right to be a flower, and not a lion or a man? It may not be easy for lions or men to pretend to be flowers, but let them do their best. |
| 7 | 217 | Above all do not let the flowers know that there may be a man or a lion amongst them. |
| 7 | 218 | They would then be disturbed. |
| 7 | 219 | They would flutter their petals fiercely. |
| 7 | 220 | Again I forced Gorean thoughts from my mind. |
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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.
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 insect or a flower? If there were more flowers than lions, or men, must not it be right to be a flower, and not a lion or a man? It may not be easy for lions or men to pretend to be flowers, but let them do their best.
Above all do not let the flowers know that there may be a man or a lion amongst them.
They would then be disturbed.
They would flutter their petals fiercely.
Again I forced Gorean thoughts from my mind.
- (Fighting Slave of Gor, Chapter 7)