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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

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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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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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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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We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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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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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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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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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 our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need.
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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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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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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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