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"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."
"You may need an additional money to make things happen and have it, but you can have an additional time anywhere. Value your time; as you wait, it is passing!"
"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."
"Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time would seem interminable. It should be so, but it is not. It is the dull eventless times that have no duration whatever. A time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy - that's the time that seems long in the memory. And this is right when you think about it. Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all."
Explore more quotes by Lionel Trilling
"Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony."
"Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect."
"We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us."
"Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere."
"This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking."
"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."
"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."
"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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