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We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults ,

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Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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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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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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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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We are children for a very long time.
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People change, but there really are limits.
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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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There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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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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