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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Cyril Connolly

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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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Literary Critic
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Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
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The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.
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The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
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We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.
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We create the world in which we live if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.
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Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.
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A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.
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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
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We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
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Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.
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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
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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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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
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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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No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.
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