Only by avoiding the beginning of things can we escape their end.

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• Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk.
  Cyril...
• We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion,
  if we want to be happy. -- Cyril...
• The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. -
  Cyril Connolly, "Journal and Memoir"...
• The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage,
  so we get married. Cyril...
• Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first call promising.
  Cyril...
• Youth is a period of missed opportunities. -- Cyril Connolly,
  "Journal and Memoir"...
• Martyrdom does not end something;
  it is only the beginning. ...
• Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
  Cyril...
• All government programs have three things in common:
  a beginning, a muddle, and no end...