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The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, — luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, — are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. – Cyril Connolly

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Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph — green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree. – Cyril Connolly

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Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear. – Cyril Connolly

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

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