Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men fall to the ground like leaves. They were swept up as memories, and burned. History owns them. These men were petrified in both senses of the word: paralyzed and turned to stone. Their refusal to express feeling killed them. Anachronistic men. Those poor, poor boys. Antonella GambottoBurke
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There was a time when people were men. Men could feel and express their feelings. Men also had the power to make decisions and take action. The world was ruled by men, but as times changed, men stopped being men.

They became anachronistic men. They stopped feeling, stopped making decisions and stopped taking action. As a result, they slowly died away.

Women began to come into the picture and take the place of men, then it slowly became women who took the place of women. So today, there are no more men or women, just anachronistic men who refuse to express or feel anything and anachronistic women who do not express or feel anything either.

Source: The Eclipse: A Memoir Of Suicide

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