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People change, but there really are limits.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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
we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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Continually Look See Threat Unable Unwilling
The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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Cliched Criticism Impoverisjhed Self Stupid Vocabulary
One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life.
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Change Discover Life Psychoanalytic Thing Treatment Yourself
There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
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Always Belief Destroy Destroying Love Need
I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
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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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Importance Preoccupation Pressing Recognition Recognize Sanity Word
We are children for a very long time.
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Children Long Time Very
Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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Down Getting Minimum Monogamy Version Way
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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Adult Hang Mother Psychology Taught Understanding
The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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Child Children Independent People Self Try
Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience.
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Blind Spots Experience Human Limit Recognition
To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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Faith Keep Recognition Recognizable Stay
You write to find out what you believe.
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Believe Find Out Writing
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
There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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Happy Hidden Marriage Nothing Possibility Scandalous Terrorizing

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