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Cyril Connolly Quotes: We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of self.
         

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


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Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.



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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.



We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.

We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.



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

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



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

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



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

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



There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.



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

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



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All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.





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