Cyril Connolly's Quote - We must select the Illusion which appeals to our temperament and e

Quote by Cyril Connolly

We must select the Illusion which appeals to our temperament and e

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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Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way. – Cyril Connolly

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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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Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether. – Cyril Connolly

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The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action. – Oscar Wilde

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What difference is there, do you think, between those in Platos cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and dont know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things? – Desiderius Erasmus

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Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not. – E. R. Beadle

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It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel. – John Keats

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