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Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.
Cyril Connolly
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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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Cyril Vernon Connolly
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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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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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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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For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
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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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Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.
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The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited.
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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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It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.
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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 dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
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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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The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom.
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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
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We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
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In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?
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We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.
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