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

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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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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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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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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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We are children for a very long time.
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