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Men Quotes by Remy de Gourmont
- Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.
- Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.
- Man is the inventor of stupidity.
- The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight,…
- Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.
- Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths…
- Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only.
- In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees.…
- Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
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