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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
Critic
Literary Critic
Novelist
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
Woman
Desire
Women
Outlasts
Infidelity
Cheating
Revenge
Emotions
Emotion

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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.
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The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.
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A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.
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Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
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The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow.
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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
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Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.
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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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Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.
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Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.
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