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Lionel Trilling

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

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

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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.

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

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The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

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Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

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It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

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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.

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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.

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The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

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