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

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Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process. – Lionel Trilling

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The Utopia the bible seems to want would have people hate evil when it is time to hate and suggests that people who turn away from the world to follow His word would in turn be hated and those people who hate them are to be humiliated in the end. – James Dye

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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers. – Lucretius

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Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. – Ernest Hemingway

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