Cyril Connolly - Yes and No (2)

Both my happiness and my unhappiness I owe to the love of pleasure; of sex,
travel, reading, conversation (hearing myself talk), food, drink, cigars and
lying in warm water. [Yes!]

Reality is what remains when these pleasures, together with hope for
the future, regret for the past, vanity of the present, and all that composes
the aroma of the self are pumped out of the air-bubble in which I live. [No. For these things also are real.]