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Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.

Cyril Connolly

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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
Critic
Literary Critic
Novelist
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
Sadness
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Misery
Leaden
Deep
Keel
Wind
Remorse
Reality
Enables
Form
Sail
Melancholy

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