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Lionel Trilling Quotes

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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Category:
American Critic Quotes
Date of Birth:
July 4, 1905
Date of Death:
November 5, 1975
Nationality:
American
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