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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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Down Getting Minimum Monogamy Version Way
The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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Dictate Everything Influence Nothing Past
We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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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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Grudge Hook Meeting Mother Need never
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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One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life.
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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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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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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
Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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Art Big Secret True Want
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
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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