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Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom.
Cyril Connolly
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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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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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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.
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Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.
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In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.
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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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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
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