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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.
—Lionel Trilling
Monday, January 02, 2017

On maturity

Maturity is making the effort to be less brittle than your instincts (together with your position in the world) would, unopposed, lead you to be.

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