20 Oct 2013

What I believe

When I consider what I believe, which I can do only by proceeding from what I do not believe, I seem in a minority of one, –and yet I know there are thousands like me: Liberals without a belief in progress, Democrats who despise their fellow-men, Pagans who still live by Christian morals, Intellectuals who cannot find the intellect sufficient, –unsatisfied Materialists, we are as common as clay.

Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave (Hamish Hamilton, 1945) p. 5

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