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~ The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. ~

Cyril Connolly

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

Cyril Connolly

~ Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise. ~

Cyril Connolly

~ Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once ~

Cyril Connolly

~ Youth is a period of missed opportunities. ~

Cyril Connolly

~ A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second-rate thoughts, and to second-rate friends ~

Cyril Connolly

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

Cyril Connolly

~ The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- LUXURY, scepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. ~

Cyril Connolly

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

Cyril Connolly

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

Cyril Connolly

~ Imprisoned in every fat man, a thin one is wildly signaling to be let out. ~

Cyril Connolly

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

Cyril Connolly

~ Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. ~

Cyril Connolly

~ Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. ~

Cyril Connolly

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