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

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

Cyril Connolly
Country, Nature, Book

Civilization 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 encountered. Proust in Venice, Matisse's birdcages overlooking the flower market at Nice, Gide on the seventeenth-century quais of Toulon, Lorca in Granada, Picasso by Saint-Germain-des-Prés: there lies civilization and for me it can exist only under those liberal regimes in which the Present is alive and therefore capable of assimilating the Past.

Cyril Connolly
Country, Nice, Lying
"The Unquiet Grave" by Cyril Connolly, (Part 2), 1951.

Civilization 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 Connolly
Country, Past, Civilization
'The Unquiet Grave' (1944) pt. 2

Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the price. Our writers have either no personality and therefore no style or a false personality and therefore a bad style; they mistake prejudice for energy and accept the sensation of material well-being as a system of thought.

Cyril Connolly
Country, Mistake, Character
"The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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