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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.

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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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Child Cultivated Encourage Feeling Form Reward Speaking Valued Wanting
To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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Faith Keep Recognition Recognizable Stay
To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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Discover Grow Growing Up Unequal
We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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Hatred Most Self Stupid
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
There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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Happy Marriage More Nothing Scandalous
Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
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Analyst Epistemologist Lover Notoriously Paranoiacs Reader Sign Wonder
Transgression is a quest for solitude
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Quest Solitude Transgression
The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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Dictate Everything Influence Nothing Past
The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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Cliched Criticism Impoverisjhed Self Stupid Vocabulary
The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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Child Children Independent People Self Try
We are children for a very long time.
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Children Long Time Very
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
Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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Appetite Cure Excesses Feeling Hopelessness Self
We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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Ourselves Spot Tyrannized Unacceptable Whatever
Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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Adult Most Nostalgia Understood Violent Wanting

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