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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
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
Avarice
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Ignorance
Darkness
Wisdom
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Passion
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Infatuation
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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
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The artist secretes nostalgia around life.
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Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.
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When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.
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Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.
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We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.
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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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Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
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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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No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.
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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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Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.
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Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered.
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