"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

January 1, 1970

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Notebook entry (1948), published in Partisan Review: 50th Anniversary Edition, ed. William Philips (1985)