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A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.
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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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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The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
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An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.
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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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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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When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
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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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Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
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That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.
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English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid one attractive, one vulgar one noble, one ape-like one serious and sincere, one undignified and false one far-sighted, one short EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter.
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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
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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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There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover.
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We fear something before we hate.
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When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.
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Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom.
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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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