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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

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Comprehend Define Describe Ourselves Rather Recognize
Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition.
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Importance Preoccupation Pressing Recognition Recognize Sanity Word
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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There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
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I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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Happy Hidden Marriage Nothing Possibility Scandalous Terrorizing
People change, but there really are limits.
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Change Limit People Reality
There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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Happy Marriage More Nothing Scandalous
Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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Hatred Most Self Stupid
We are children for a very long time.
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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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Blind Spots Experience Human Limit Recognition
The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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Dictate Everything Influence Nothing Past
We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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Ourselves Spot Tyrannized Unacceptable Whatever
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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Child Cultivated Encourage Feeling Form Reward Speaking Valued Wanting

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