Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
ADAM PHILLIPSThe child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
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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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We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults ,
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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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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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The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
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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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Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition.
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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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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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We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
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We are children for a very long time.
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