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Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.

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
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Happiness
Spirit
Body
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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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The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.
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We create the world in which we live if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.
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Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking.
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Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.
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In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?
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Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.
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When in doubt, choose greatness.
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What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
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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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Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom.
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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.
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Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
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I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.
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From now on - specialize never again make any concession to the ninety-nine percent of you which is like everyon else at the expense of the one percent which is unique.
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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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