In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
Cyril ConnollyIt is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say โif I put this pill in your beer it will explode,โ we might believe them; but were they to cry โif I pronounce this spell over your beer it will go flat,โ we should remain incredulous and Paracelsus, the Alchemists, Aleister Crowley and all the Magi have lived in vain. Yet when I read science I turn magical; when I study magic, scientific.
Cyril ConnollyA mutually fulfilled sexual union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide. But it is not quite real. It stops when the telephone rings. Such a passion can be kept at its early strength only by adding to it either more and more unhappiness (jealousy, separation, doubt, renunciation), or more and more artificiality (drink, technique, stage-illusions). Whoever has missed this has never lived, who lives for it alone is but partly alive.
Cyril Connolly