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

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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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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 child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
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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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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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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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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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Faith Keep Recognition Recognizable Stay
People change, but there really are limits.
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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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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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Adulthood Believe Childhood Religion Solution
There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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Happy Marriage More Nothing Scandalous
You write to find out what you believe.
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Believe Find Out Writing
We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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Hatred Most Self Stupid

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