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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..

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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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Cliched Criticism Impoverisjhed Self Stupid Vocabulary
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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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
ADAM PHILLIPS

Appetite Cure Excesses Feeling Hopelessness Self
Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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Adulthood Believe Childhood Religion Solution
Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition.
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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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Dictate Everything Influence Nothing Past
There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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Happy Hidden Marriage Nothing Possibility Scandalous Terrorizing
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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People change, but there really are limits.
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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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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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Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience.
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