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We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.

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
Egotism
Tyranny
Friends
Happiness
Happy
Cannot
Without
Love

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