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Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
Cyril Connolly
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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
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Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
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The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.
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Sheep with a nasty side.
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Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking.
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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
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Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
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The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.
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Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.
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Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered.
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