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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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There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
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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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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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