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When I contemplate the accumul...

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?

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

In youth the life of reason is...

In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient; afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

It is significant comment on t...

It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say 'if I put this pill in your beer it will explode,' we might believe them; but were they to cry 'if I pronounce this spell over your beer it will go flat,' we should remain incredulous and Paracelsus, the Alchemists, Aleister Crowley and all the Magi have lived in vain. Yet when I read science I turn magical; when I study magic, scientific.

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No education is worth having t...

No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Approaching forty, I had a sin...

Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

In my religion all believers w...

In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

No taste is so acquired as tha...

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

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Longevity is the revenge of ta...

Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

If our elaborate and dominatin...

If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are; like fishes not meant to swim.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Like the bee its sting, the pr...

Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Melancholy and remorse forms t...

Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

The books I haven't written ar...

The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Everything is a dangerous drug...

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

No one over thirty-five is wor...

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

Optimism and self-pity are the...

Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

No city should be too large fo...

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Dining out is a vice, a dissip...

Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends, belch out our literary preferences and are egged on by accomplices in the audience to acts of mental exhibitionism. Such evenings cannot fail to diminish those who take part in them. They end on Monkey Hill.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Hate is crystallized fear, fea...

Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectified. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

He [George Orwell] would not b...

He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

The Expulsion from Eden is an ...

The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

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