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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Cyril Connolly

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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
Critic
Literary Critic
Novelist
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
Lonely
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Greater
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Bondage
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Loneliness

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