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We fear something before we hate.

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
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Fear
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No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.
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An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.
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Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivolous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound each day, vacuous and habit-ridden, I help it re-form.
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We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.
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Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
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When in doubt, choose greatness.
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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.
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In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable.
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