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“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 (19051975)
“Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.”
—Lionel Trilling (19051975)
“A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.”
—Lionel Trilling (19051975)
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