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Transgression is a quest for solitude

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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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Art Big Secret True Want
To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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Discover Grow Growing Up Unequal
When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe
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Comprehend Define Describe Ourselves Rather Recognize
There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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Happy Marriage More Nothing Scandalous
The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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Child Doubt Food Hide Love
Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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Adult Most Nostalgia Understood Violent Wanting
The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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Dictate Everything Influence Nothing Past
We are children for a very long time.
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Children Long Time Very
People change, but there really are limits.
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Change Limit People Reality
To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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Faith Keep Recognition Recognizable Stay
The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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Child Children Independent People Self Try
Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
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Analyst Epistemologist Lover Notoriously Paranoiacs Reader Sign Wonder
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
The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
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Access Child Children Finding might Object Obstacle
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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Aliveness Bear Dealing Everybody Everything Need
Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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End Failed Hero Impractical Mean Pragmatist Unrealistic

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