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

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Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience.
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I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
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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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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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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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One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life.
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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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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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You write to find out what you believe.
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