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Only Quotes by Cyril Connolly
- 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…
- The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and…
- 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…
- It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
- A mutually fulfilled sexual union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide. But it is not quite real. It stops when…
- The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
- Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
- The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able to tolerate the…
- The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness…
- We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
- 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…
- The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
- There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner party of six,…
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