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Cyril Connolly quotes about love

English Journalist September 10, 1903 – November 26, 1974

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There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner party of six, and to be traveling south with someone whom your conscience permits you to love. Cyril Connolly
...there is a way of leaving and yet of not leaving; of hinting that one loves and is willing to return, yet never coming back and so preserving a relationship in a lingering decay. Cyril Connolly
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt those whom we love that the guilt with which we are born becomes intolerable, and since all those whom we love intensely and continuously grow part of us, and since we hate ourselves in them, so we torture ourselves and them together. Cyril Connolly
Cyril Connolly quote: "Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear."
Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear. Cyril Connolly
When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin. Cyril Connolly
Cyril Connolly quote: "Is it possible to love any human being without being torn limb..."
Is it possible to love any human being without being torn limb from limb? Cyril Connolly
Cyril Connolly quote: "We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for..."
We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving. Cyril Connolly

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