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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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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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Dictate Everything Influence Nothing Past
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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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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There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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You write to find out what you believe.
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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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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 children for a very long time.
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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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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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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Cliched Criticism Impoverisjhed Self Stupid Vocabulary

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