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There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs

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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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We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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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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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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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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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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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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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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There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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Happy Marriage More Nothing Scandalous
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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We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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Hatred Most Self Stupid
I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
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