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Men Quotes by James Branch Cabell
- Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
- Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong
- Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.
- The man was not merely very human; he was humanity. And I reflected that it is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we…
- I am Manuel. I have lived in the loneliness which is common to all men, but the difference is that I have known it. Now…
- But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.
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