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“But war was a world with no home, no roof, no comforts. A miserable journey, of endless drifting. War was a world without real men, without real women, without feeling.”

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Book:The Sorrow of War

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“Dopo aver mutato gli uomini di un equipaggio, il guardavo raspare e gridare nel porcile, defecarsi addosso l'un l'altro, instupidirsi dall'orrore. Odiavano tutto, le loro carni adesso voluttuose, i loro piedi fessi, i loro ventri gonfi strascicanti nel fango. Era un'umiliazione, un'abiezione. Morivano dalla nostalgia delle loro mani, per quelle appendici che gli uomini usano per mitigare il mondo. Andiamo, dicevo io, non è poi così male. Dovreste apprezzare i vantaggi di essere dei maiali. [,,,] Non mi stavano mai a sentire. La verità è che gli uomini sono dei pessimi maiali.”

Men Pigs Witches Circe

Book:Circe

Source: Circe

“When will I ever understand that what's astonishing about the number of men who remain faithful is not that it's so small but that there are any of them at all?”

Men Infidelity Faithfulness

Book:Heartburn

Source: Heartburn

“I wish that Cecil had not turned so cynical about women. He has, for the second time, quite altered. Why will men have theories about women? I haven’t any about men.”

Men Women

Book:A Room with a View

Source: A Room with a View

“You have to be a man to understand why it’s important to cry and how to be there for others who cry.”

Men Cry Crying Manhood Masculinity Femininity Grit Showing Up True Grit

Author:Drue Grit

“but love is not fashionable anymore, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about it that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once-but no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past.”

Love Romance Poets

Book:The Happy Prince and Other Tales

Source: The Happy Prince and Other Tales

“A woman like that...she doesn't come around all the time, but when she leaves; you never forget her. I'm telling you, brother...that one isn't like the rest. You better dust off and give her your best - or you'll never get another shot and wonder what happened with the best you ever got.”

Men Women Relationships Wise Advice Think Act

Author:Sai Marie Johnson

“What is it about men? We see something fresh and pure--when the snow falls, we can't help it. We rush for our boots and go tromping about until it's brown and muddy.”

Men Snow Muddy

Book:Inheritance

Source: Inheritance

“i’m too in love with my life to be spilling all over the floor for the next man who gives me butterflies when i could look in the mirror and take my own breath away”

Men Growth Self Love Reflection Mirror

Book:Home Body

Source: Home Body

“Sentimental, you say? Anti-social? Oughtn't to prefer trees to men? I say it depends what trees and what men.”

Men Trees

Book:Coming Up for Air

Source: Coming Up for Air

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