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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.
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
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Cyril Vernon Connolly
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From now on - specialize never again make any concession to the ninety-nine percent of you which is like everyon else at the expense of the one percent which is unique.
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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 man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
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We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
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We fear something before we hate.
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