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Quote by Cyril Connolly
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self. - C

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self. – 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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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. – Cyril Connolly

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Wisdom
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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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Body, the
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We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death. – John Donne

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Prison

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and mangled mind leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict. – Elizabeth Drew

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Prison

The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. – Henry Miller

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Prison

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. – Horace Mann

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Prison

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