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

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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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People change, but there really are limits.
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There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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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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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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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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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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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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One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life.
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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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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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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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