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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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Cyril Vernon Connolly
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We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.
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Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
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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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When in doubt, choose greatness.
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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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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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When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.
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In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.
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It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.
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Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
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Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.
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