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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.

~Lionel Trilling

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Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: July 4th, 1905

Died: November 5th, 1975

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