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The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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
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Civilization
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Decadence
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Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.
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Sheep with a nasty side.
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When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
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Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
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Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities it is all they have to insure their places in the world.
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No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.
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In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.
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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
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We fear something before we hate.
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The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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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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A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.
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The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
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