"Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness."
-Cyril Connolly
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"It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.“
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"There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives."
-Cyril Connolly
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"In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female."
-Cyril Connolly
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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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"Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth."
-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."
-Cyril Connolly
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"I have a bit of a rebellious nature."
-John Cusack
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"I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop."
-Willie Stargell
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"There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder."
-Alfred Austin
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"Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!"
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"There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature."
-Charles Eastman
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