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The artist secretes nostalgia around life.

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
Secretes
Nostalgia
Artist
Around
Life

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Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.
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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
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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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Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
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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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