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Quote by Cyril Connolly
A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose tha

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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In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. – Cyril Connolly

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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. – Cyril Connolly

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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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Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome. – Chinese Proverb

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I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people. – Desiderius Erasmus

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Everyone is more or less mad on one point. – Rudyard Kipling

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I may be crazy but it keeps me from going insane. – Waylon Jennings

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