Quotes by Connolly, Cyril

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder >>

The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very >>

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reade >>

Quotations about Civilization

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to >>

Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization. >>

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volc >>

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.

Connolly, Cyril