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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
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Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems
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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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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.
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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.
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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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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
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The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
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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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Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.
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That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.
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Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.
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The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
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The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.
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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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When in doubt, choose greatness.
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When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.
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We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.
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