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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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A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossing with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality. – Cyril Connolly

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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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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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