We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.
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A theory of the middle class that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather by its relation to government. That is, one could shade down from an actual ruling or governing class to a class hopelessly out of relation to government, thinking of government as beyond its control, of itself as wholly controlled by government. Somewhere in between and In gradations is the group that has the sense that gov't exists for it, and shapes its consciousness accordingly.Lionel Trilling
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
What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
Lionel Trilling
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
Lionel Trilling
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
Lionel Trilling
Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
Lionel Trilling
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