Instinctual Drives Quotes by Cyril Connolly

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• The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.
• Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
• When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not…
• In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient; afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable.
• No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.
• Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.
• If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and…
• Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to…
• Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.
• Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable.
• Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.
• No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves,…

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