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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.

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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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The whole notion of sanity may be an attempt to medicalize morality – to speak of the good in the language of health: to make us more accurate, more scientific in our wanting – but by the same token it becomes a form of moral blackmail.
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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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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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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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People change, but there really are limits.
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We are children for a very long time.
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There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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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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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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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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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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