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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.

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
Live
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Humans
Life
Unfit
World
Tire
Becomes
Create
Responsibility

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