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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
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
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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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Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.
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Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
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We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.
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There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover.
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The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
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