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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.
Cyril Connolly
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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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Literary Critic
Novelist
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Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
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When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.
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Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.
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Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.
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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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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
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The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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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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There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defense-line of custom and habit we must sleep and therefore we must dream.
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We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
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