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Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
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In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
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Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.
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Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will even say 'Bless You'.
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One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
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Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and fulfillment are in no way linked to coercive subjugation. This feminist vision of the sexual imaginary is the space few men seem able to enter.
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
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The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy.
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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
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The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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The real stumbling-block of totalitarian régimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.
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