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The goal of every culture is ...

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

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Civilization is an active dep...

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 those without a Past is it to be discovered.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Were I to deduce any system f...

Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

We are all serving a life sen...

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

No-one was ever made wretched...

No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Vulgarity is the garlic in th...

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

The friendships which last ar...

The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

The man who is master of his ...

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Words today are like the shel...

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

The worst vice of the solitar...

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Today the function of the art...

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

No one over thirty-five is wo...

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

The past is the only dead thi...

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Like water, we are truest to ...

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

A great writer creates a worl...

A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

No taste is so acquired as th...

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

The true index of a man's cha...

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Literature is the art of writ...

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

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Whom the gods wish to destroy...

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Better to write for yourself ...

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

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