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It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.

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
Creation
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Success
Love
Elation
Gloom
Essential
Essentials
Failure

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