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Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.
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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Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
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The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
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How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?
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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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The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited.
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In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.
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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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What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
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Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others) and unless the writer is quite ruthless with these amiable footlers, they will drag him down with them.
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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
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Carelessness is not fatal to journalism, nor are cliches, for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once a journalist has to accept the fact that his work, by its very todayness, is excluded from any share in tomorrow.
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Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.
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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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Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.
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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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Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered.
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When in doubt, choose greatness.
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Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.
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The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.
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