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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

Topics: Always Calm Each Existence Farther Harmony Life Little Secret Shore Success Success Is The Secret Of Up Us Wash Wave

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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.

~Cyril Connolly

Topics: Garlic Life Salad Vulgarity

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The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

~Cyril Connolly

Topics: Dead Only Past Smells Sweet Thing

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

~Cyril Connolly

Topics: Apathy Breeding Class Crime Delirium Grounds May Middle Middle Class Slums Suburbs Well

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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

~Cyril Connolly

Topics: Avarice Darkness Folly Ignorance Infatuation Passion Purity Wisdom

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Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

~Cyril Connolly

Topics: About Always Be Nice Because Nice Than Those Who Will Writing You Younger

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

~Cyril Connolly

Topics: Appeals Be Happy Embrace Happy Illusion Must Our Passion Select Temperament Want Which

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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

~Cyril Connolly

Topics: Capacity Idleness Infinite Living Name Only Present

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Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

~Cyril Connolly

Topics: Call Destroy First Gods Promising Whom Wish

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

~Cyril Connolly

Topics: Equipped Love Loving Once Only Perfectly

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Journalist

Born: September 10th, 1903

Died: November 26th, 1974

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