"Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness."
-Cyril Connolly
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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."
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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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"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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