How We Lose Our Originality:

The following quote is from Edward Young, an eighteenth century aesthetician. Lionel Trilling used this quote in his book, Sincerity and Authenticity (Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1971).

"Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies."

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