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
   
Lionel Trilling   Name:
Lionel Trilling
Type:
Critic
Nationality:
American
Birth:
July 4, 1905
Death:
November 5, 1975
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