...there is a way of leaving and yet of not leaving; of hin… - Cyril Connolly

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...there is a way of leaving and yet of not leaving; of hinting that one loves and is willing to return, yet never coming back and so preserving a relationship in a lingering decay.

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Cyril Vernon Connolly (10 September 1903 – 26 November 1974) was an English author, editor and critic.

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