We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

—Cyril Connolly

About Cyril Connolly

Portrait of Cyril Connolly

Cyril Vernon Connolly (10 September 1903 – 26 November 1974) was an English literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine Horizon (1940–49) and wrote Enemies of Promise (1938), which combined literary criticism with an autobiographical exploration of why he failed to become the successful...

More quotations from Cyril Connolly

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.

—Cyril Connolly

The goal of every culture is to decay through overcivilization; the factors of decadence — luxury, skepticism, weariness, and superstition — are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

—Cyril Connolly

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

—Cyril Connolly

learning people knowledge books the country

This is pretty much what journals are all about, at least to me. I knew as I wrote them that even though they provided an excellent place for brain (and heart, and psyche) dump, they were mainly a map of me.

—Cyril Connolly

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.

—Cyril Connolly

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