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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
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Cyril Vernon Connolly
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We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.
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If Montaigne is a man in the prime of life sitting in his study on a warm morning and putting down the sum of his experience in his rich, sinewy prose, then Pascal is that same man lying awake in the small hours of the night when death seems very close and every thought is heightened by the apprehension that it may be his last.
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Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.
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Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.
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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
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Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities it is all they have to insure their places in the world.
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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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When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.
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The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
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When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
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Sheep with a nasty side.
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In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable.
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Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
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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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An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.
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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.
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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 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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