112 ordspråk av Cyril Connolly

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Cyril Connolly föddes den 10 september 1903 och dog den 26 november 1974 - engelsk kritiker.
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en Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.
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en The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him
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en The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
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en The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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en Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils
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en There is no fury like a woman searching for a new lover
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en 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?
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en Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
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en 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
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en We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy
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en The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
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en There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall
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en The ape-like virtues without which no one can enjoy a public school.
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en 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.
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en 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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