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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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We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. – Lionel Trilling

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Equality
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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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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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legal
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Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other. – Jean Baudrillard

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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

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now… only much, much better. – Laurie Halse Anderson

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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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Wrestling is ballet with violence. – Jesse Ventura

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For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. – Clifton Fadiman

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However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life. – Robert Casey

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Happiness is a function of accepting what is. – Werner Erhard

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