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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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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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Cyril Connolly
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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all. – Eldridge Cleaver

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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter. – Jean Genet

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A fly and a flea in a flue
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Said the Flea, Let us fly!
Said the Fly, Let us flee!
So they fled through a flaw in the flue. – Anon.

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