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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
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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Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.
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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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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
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Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.
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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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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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Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
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When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
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Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.
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The artist secretes nostalgia around life.
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No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.
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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
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Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
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Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered.
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When in doubt, choose greatness.
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Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.
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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
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When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.
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