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Quote by Cyril Connolly
If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied a

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

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The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. – Cyril Connolly

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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. – Cyril Connolly

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The body is the souls poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam. – Robert Herrick

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Time was when I despised the body:
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The Body I relaised is the Lords temple;
And so I began preserving it with care infinite. – Thirumoolar

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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. – George Santayana

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There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man. – Novalis

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