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Diana Trilling
Born
in New York City, The United States
July 21, 1905
Died
October 23, 1996
Genre
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“We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one’s life without a sense of time is to squander it.”
― The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling
― The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling
“At a time in our culture when violence was achieving a new legitimacy as a form of public assertion, there was perhaps a special pathos in the idea of a woman so obviously foreign to extreme behavior, whose life had been dedicated to respectability and convention, being suddenly driven to such desperate conduct. [Jean Harris's] action spoke of depths of suffering and despair far beyond what most of us are pushed to though surely of the same basic stuff as the everyday pain that’s woven into our experience.
It forced upon us a fresh realization that behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there’s a terrible human capacity that may one day overwhelm any of us.”
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It forced upon us a fresh realization that behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there’s a terrible human capacity that may one day overwhelm any of us.”
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“Of course he made her up, as we all make up the people we love. Bain called it an ‘extraordinary hallucination’. But one's person's hallucination or neurosis is another person's love, which is nothing if not an inspired and happy warping of one's perceptual mechanism in favour of the person perceived.”
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