It is closing time in the gardens of the West and from now on an artist will be judged only by the resonance of his solitude or the quality of his despair.
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When writers meet they are truculent, indifferent, or over-polite. Then comes the inevitable moment. A shows B that he has read something of B s. Will B show A If not, then A hates B, if yes, then all is well. The only other way for writers to meet is to share a quick pee over a common lamp-post.Cyril Connolly
We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
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Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turn before we have learnt to walk
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He could not blow his nose without moralizing on the state of the handkerchief industry
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No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.
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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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