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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
Cyril Connolly
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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
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The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
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In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
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Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
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Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
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All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
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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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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.
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The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.
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Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
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