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The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited.

Cyril Connolly

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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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Coventry
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UK
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When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.
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Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.
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