Cyril Connolly: Man

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“Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.”

Cyril Connolly book The Unquiet Grave

Part III: La Clé des Chants (p.103)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)
Context: There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, our popularity, our vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may be able to cease from hating. Analyse in this way the hatred of ideas or of the kind of people whom we have once loved and whose faces are preserved in Spirits of Anger. Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.

Hate , Fear

“Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.”

Cyril Connolly book The Unquiet Grave

Part II: Te Palinure Petens (p. 58)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)

Cyril Connolly quote: “The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife.”

“The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife.”

Cyril Connolly book The Unquiet Grave

Part II: Te Palinure Petens (p. 64)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)

For Wife , For Men , Health

“Man axalotl here below but I ask very little. Some fragments of Pamphylides, a Choctaw blood-mask, the prose of Scaliger the Elder, a painting by Fuseli, an occasional visit to the all-in wrestling, or to my meretrix; a cook who can produce a passable 'poulet à la Khmer,' a Pong vase. Simple tastes, you will agree, and it is my simple habit to indulge them!”

Cyril Connolly

"Told in Gath"
The Condemned Playground (1945)

Painting , Cooking

“No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.”

Cyril Connolly book The Unquiet Grave

Part I: Ecce Gubernator (p. 35)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)