Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults ,
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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.
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People change, but there really are limits.
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To our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need.
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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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You write to find out what you believe.
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Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience.
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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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