the style of a woman, the kiss of a man

Don’t be fanatical in your dedication to reason,“ I said.

These words both shocked and offended him.

"Don’t cling to reason so desperately in a world of so many horrid contradictions!”

He was silenced.

“If you so cling to reason,” I said, “then in the passage of time reason may fail you, and when it does you may find yourself taking refuge in madness.

—Pandora to Marius - “Pandora” [Anne Rice]