"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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"Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.“
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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."
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"Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear."
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"Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise."
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"In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female."
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"We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving."
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