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

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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. – Cyril Connolly

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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

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Time was when I despised the body:
But then I saw the God within.
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 the souls poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam. – Robert Herrick

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

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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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