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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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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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Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition.
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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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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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There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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