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Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain.

— Philip Pullman

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

I love men - everything about them: the way they look, the way they smell, the way they feel. I love their minds.

— Poppy Montgomery

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

— Christopher Morley

Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.

— Jose Marti

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

— Voltaire

From the first opening of our eyes, it is the light that attracts us. We clutch aimlessly with our baby fingers at the gossamer-motes in the sunbeam, and we die reaching out after an ineffable blending of earthly and heavenly beauty which we shall never fully comprehend.

— Lucy Larcom

We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

— Leo Tolstoy

✗Opposing Perspectives

Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

— Karl Shapiro