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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.
Cyril Connolly
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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
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The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
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A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.
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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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For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
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Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
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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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The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow.
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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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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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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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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
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Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.
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