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Letter "I" » impotent
«To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.»
«There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.»
«The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.»
Author: Paul Gauguin
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«People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals / that is, goals that do not inspire them.»
«The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent»
«The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.»
«Sloth views the towers of Fame with envious eyes,Desirous still, still impotent to rise.»
«Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity»
«The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword and blood.»
«They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.»