Quote by Cyril Connolly
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, inf

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

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives. – Cyril Connolly

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The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. – Cyril Connolly

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I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this countrys principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times. – Chris Christie

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You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people dont see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom. – Eric Ries

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To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. – Wilson Mizner

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In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance. – Theodore Dreiser

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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons. – Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, 1875

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My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. – Richard Avedon

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