Cyril Connolly Quotes:
Ocupation: Critic
Life: September 10, 1903 - November 26, 1974
Birthday: September 10
Death: November 26
The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and not, as Epicurus, a prolonged intermediary state between ecstasy and pain.
source: Cyril Connolly (2008). “Enemies of Promise”, p.38, University of Chicago Press
topic: Pain, Golden Moments, Pleasure
