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• Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk. -- Cyril Connolly
• Only by avoiding the beginning of things can we escape their end. -- Cyril Connolly
• The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. Cyril Connolly
• Choice is an illusion. In reality, our lives are controlled by the society in which we live.
• Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first call promising. -- Cyril Connolly
• Youth is a period of missed opportunities. -- Cyril Connolly, "Journal and Memoir" 1983
• Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite.
  Islanded between the arms the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river....
• I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared.
  To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt....
• We must become the change we want to see. -- Mahatma Gandhi