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We are children for a very long time.
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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
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
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
You write to find out what you believe.
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Believe Find Out Writing
There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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Happy Marriage More Nothing Scandalous
To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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Discover Grow Growing Up Unequal
Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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Adulthood Believe Childhood Religion Solution
We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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Hatred Most Self Stupid
There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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Happy Hidden Marriage Nothing Possibility Scandalous Terrorizing
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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Child Cultivated Encourage Feeling Form Reward Speaking Valued Wanting
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
Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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Adult Most Nostalgia Understood Violent Wanting
The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
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Access Child Children Finding might Object Obstacle
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
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

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