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"Youth is a period of missed opportunities."

Cyril Connolly, English Journalist

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Cyril Connolly, English Journalist

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

"It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book."

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

"Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear."

"The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married."

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

"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."

"A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent."

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

"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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