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Transgression is a quest for solitude

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We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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Hatred Most Self Stupid
Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition.
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Importance Preoccupation Pressing Recognition Recognize Sanity Word
The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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Child Children Independent People Self Try
To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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Faith Keep Recognition Recognizable Stay
I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
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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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Aliveness Bear Dealing Everybody Everything Need
The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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Child Doubt Food Hide Love
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
Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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Adult Most Nostalgia Understood Violent Wanting
There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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Happy Marriage More Nothing Scandalous
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 terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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Happy Hidden Marriage Nothing Possibility Scandalous Terrorizing
We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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Ourselves Spot Tyrannized Unacceptable Whatever
Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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End Failed Hero Impractical Mean Pragmatist Unrealistic
You write to find out what you believe.
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Believe Find Out Writing
Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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Adulthood Believe Childhood Religion Solution

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