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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
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Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.
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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.
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Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace.
The Middle Ground (2013) 103 -
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
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Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
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Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.
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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
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Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
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Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.
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Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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