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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.

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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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It is as if to say: if these are not valued – if these forms of wanting and feeling and speaking and doing – are not cultivated and encouraged and rewarded in the child, then the child will be mad.
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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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