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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
Around
Life
Secretes
Nostalgia
Artist

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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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If Montaigne is a man in the prime of life sitting in his study on a warm morning and putting down the sum of his experience in his rich, sinewy prose, then Pascal is that same man lying awake in the small hours of the night when death seems very close and every thought is heightened by the apprehension that it may be his last.
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When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.
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Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.
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Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
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Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.
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Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
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That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.
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Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.
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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
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We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
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Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
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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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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.
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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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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
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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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When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.
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