A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied
Cyril ConnollyExcept for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.
Cyril ConnollyWe create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.
Cyril ConnollyNo one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
Cyril Connolly