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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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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
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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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Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.
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The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
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The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
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The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
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The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
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When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.
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As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
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Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.
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The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited.
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Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.
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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.
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Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.
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Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
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We create the world in which we live if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.
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Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
Cyril Connolly
