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

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People change, but there really are limits.
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Change Limit People Reality
The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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Dictate Everything Influence Nothing Past
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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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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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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Access Child Children Finding might Object Obstacle
There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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We are children for a very long time.
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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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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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Comprehend Define Describe Ourselves Rather Recognize
Transgression is a quest for solitude
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Quest Solitude Transgression
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
One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life.
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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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