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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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Akshay Vasu

"The most dangerous negativity comes from ourselves in the form of doubts, fears and unreasonable self-criticisms."

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"It is a great mystery to me how the problems of others seem like simple arithmetic while my own appear as complicated as a calculus equation."

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"Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood."

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"Sniffing glue is a homeless nonbeliever's prayer."

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"Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it."

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"Usually the term phobia refers to the psychological fear of the human mind from something that poses a threat. But when a species starts using the term fear against a biological portion of itself, there is nothing more demeaning than this."

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"The negative way of thinking based on constant complaints, strains, and objections of discontent steals our energy."

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"Words don't have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess."

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Akshay Vasu

"Who has fear? The one who has greed has fear."

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"Sometimes we are very convinced that what we went through needs to be re-lived so we end up going back and forth to the demons of the past and eventually we fail to get over them."

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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
"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."

Legal

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Lionel Trilling
"The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy."

Writing

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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."

Heart

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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
"We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us."

Being

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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
"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
"Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal."

Creativity

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