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If Montaigne is a man in the p...

If Montaigne is a man in the prime of life sitting in his study on a warm morning and putting down the sum of his experience in his rich, sinewy prose, then Pascal is that same man lying awake in the small hours of the night when death seems very close and every thought is heightened by the apprehension that it may be his last.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

A life based on reason will al...

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

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

The greatest problem with wome...

The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Industrial society seems likel...

Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Marriage is the permanent conv...

Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Beautiful women must think abo...

Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to insure their places in the world.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

There is no fury like an ex-wi...

There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

When I write after dark the sh...

When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

There is no pain equal to that...

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt those whom we love that the guilt with which we are born becomes intolerable, and since all those whom we love intensely and continuously grow part of us, and since we hate ourselves in them, so we torture ourselves and them together.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Beneath this mask of selfish t...

Beneath this mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivilous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit ridden, I let it reform.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

While thoughts exist, words ar...

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

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The artist secretes nostalgia ...

The artist secretes nostalgia around life.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Like those crabs which dress t...

Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom.

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It is a consolation of human l...

It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to be happy.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Peace ... is a morbid conditio...

Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Young writers if they are to m...

Young writers if they are to mature require a period of between three and seven years in which to live down their promise. Promise is like the mediaeval hangman who after settling the noose, pushed his victim off the platform and jumped on his back, his weight acting a drop while his jockeying arms prevented the unfortunate from loosening the rope. When he judged him dead he dropped to the ground.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Beneath a mask of selfish tran...

Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Melancholy and remorse form th...

Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner than the flat-bottomed pleasure-lovers but we venture out in weather that would sink them and we choose our direction.

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The refractory pupil of Socrat...

The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and not, as Epicurus, a prolonged intermediary state between ecstasy and pain.

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It is after creation, in the e...

It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

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