Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.
Cyril ConnollyCivilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered.
Cyril ConnollyGreen leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
Cyril ConnollyWe must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
Cyril Connolly