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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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Deutsche Übersetzung

Es ist möglich, dass die Betrachtung der Grausamkeit uns nicht human, sondern grausam macht. dass die Wiederholung der Schlechtigkeit unseres geistigen Zustandes uns zustimmen lässt.

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