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Lionel Trilling poetry

Lionel Trilling | poetry

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

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legal Lionel Trilling

Lionel Trilling | legal

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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Lionel Trilling | imagination

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

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humor Lionel Trilling

Lionel Trilling | humor

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

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health Lionel Trilling

Lionel Trilling | health

We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.

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equality Lionel Trilling

Lionel Trilling | equality

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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Quote from Lionel Trilling | art

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