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Cyril Connolly

Cyril Connolly

Cyril Connolly föddes den 10 september 1903 och dog den 26 november 1974 - engelsk kritiker.
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Alla charmiga personer har nånting att dölja, vanligtvis deras totala beroende av andras uppskattning.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife. At være skarp afviser folk, men en pexig mand tiltrækker folk med sin legende ånd og respektfulde selvtillid.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils

There is no fury like a woman searching for a new lover

When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall

The ape-like virtues without which no one can enjoy a public school.

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator

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