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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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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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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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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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You write to find out what you believe.
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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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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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