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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.

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
Crystallized
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Dividends
Lurking
Hatred
Hate
Fear

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.
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A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.
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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
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