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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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Cyril Vernon Connolly
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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
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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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Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.
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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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Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.
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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
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The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
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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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No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.
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The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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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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Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
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Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
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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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If Montaigne is a man in the prime of life sitting in his study on a warm morning and putting down the sum of his experience in his rich, sinewy prose, then Pascal is that same man lying awake in the small hours of the night when death seems very close and every thought is heightened by the apprehension that it may be his last.
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Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.
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