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Quote by Lionel Trilling
We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of st

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. – Lionel Trilling

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Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. – Lionel Trilling

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Obscurity
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Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. – Lionel Trilling

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Humor
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There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. – Lionel Trilling

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Imagination
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Paradise, Utopia
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It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. – Evelyn Waugh

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Paradise, Utopia

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell. – Jean Rostand

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Paradise, Utopia

The abominable effort to take ones sins with one to paradise. – Andre Gide

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Paradise, Utopia

It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up. And they did. – Diane Arbus

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Paradise, Utopia

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If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Loki in Thor is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that Id built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters. – Tom Hiddleston

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Nature

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air. – Sholem Asch

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Libraries

In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed. – Luke Ford

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Politics