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Quote by Cyril Connolly
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. – Cyril Connolly

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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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Illusion
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The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. – Cyril Connolly

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Success
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The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. – Cyril Connolly

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Fear
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear. – Michel de Montaigne

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The key to change… is to let go of fear. – Rosanne Cash

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He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness. – John Calvin

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Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals. – Aristotle

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