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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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Literary Critic
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Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
Cheating
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Women
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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 worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
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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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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
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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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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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The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
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