We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
ADAM PHILLIPSBelieving in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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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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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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Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience.
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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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You write to find out what you believe.
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life.
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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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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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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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