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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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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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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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We, who have already borne on the road to Paradise the lives of the best among us, want a difficult, erect, implacable Paradise; a Paradise where one can never rest and which has, beside the threshold of the gates, angels with swords. – J. A. Primo De Rivera

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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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We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise. – Simone Weil

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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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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? – J.B. Priestley

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Traveling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me, and I really liked that. – Mia Wasikowska

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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished. – Adam Weishaupt

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