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We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
Cyril Connolly
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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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Coventry
England
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Cyril Vernon Connolly
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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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The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
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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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Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.
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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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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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Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.
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Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.
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No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.
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Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
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Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
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