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Lionel Trilling

"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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"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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A.E. Samaan

"My heart broke and my mind opened, tragedy works in a funny way like that ~ what once tore me apart was actually what was setting my truth free."

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A.E. Samaan

"Vulnerability + Action + Positive Thinking = Courage."

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A.E. Samaan

"I think my dad was so fascinated by this idea because he realizedon some fundamental level that he was not in control of his desires:I think he woke up every morning in his nice house with hardwoodfloors and granite countertops and wondered why he desired granitecountertops and hardwood floors, wondered who precisely wasrunning his life."

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A.E. Samaan

"Idleness is the parent of psychology."

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A.E. Samaan

"Day or night, good or bad, all things from within."

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A.E. Samaan

"People who are two faced, usually forget which mask they are wearing at some point in their life."

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A.E. Samaan

"We are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember."

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A.E. Samaan

"We are most often inspired and motivated by fallacy rather than logic."

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A.E. Samaan

"If we let the drama of others' lives become our own, then we are no longer ourselves. We become the reflections of others' dramas and their lives, their tragedies, and their misfortunes become our own."

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A.E. Samaan

"I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary."

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Lionel Trilling
"Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over."

Time

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Lionel Trilling
"This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking."

Creativity

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

Humor

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

Writing

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Lionel Trilling
"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."

Psychology

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Lionel Trilling
"It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief."

Life

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Lionel Trilling
"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."

Society

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

Health

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

Imagination

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Lionel Trilling
"What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have."

Power

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