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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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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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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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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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Blind Spots Experience Human Limit Recognition
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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Comprehend Define Describe Ourselves Rather Recognize
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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There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
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There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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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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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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Discover Grow Growing Up Unequal
Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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Appetite Cure Excesses Feeling Hopelessness Self
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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Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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Art Big Secret True Want
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

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