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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
Cyril Connolly
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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
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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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Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
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Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.
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The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
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Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.
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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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Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others) and unless the writer is quite ruthless with these amiable footlers, they will drag him down with them.
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Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.
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The artist secretes nostalgia around life.
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An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.
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What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
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We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.
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Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.
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