Quote by Cyril Connolly
Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear r

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

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Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise. – Cyril Connolly

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Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains, but Emigrated to another star! – Helen Hunt Jackson

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Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living. – Paul Eldridge

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In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. – Samuel Johnson

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Dont pity me now, dont pity me never; Im going to do nothing for ever and ever. – James Agate

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