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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
Cyril Connolly
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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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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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The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
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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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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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Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
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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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In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable.
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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
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It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.
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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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We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
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The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
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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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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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Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
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No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.
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Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.
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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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