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Transgression is a quest for solitude

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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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Ourselves Spot Tyrannized Unacceptable Whatever
Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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Adult Most Nostalgia Understood Violent Wanting
The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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Child Children Independent People Self Try
The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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Art Big Secret True Want
There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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Happy Hidden Marriage Nothing Possibility Scandalous Terrorizing
Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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Adulthood Believe Childhood Religion Solution
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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Child Cultivated Encourage Feeling Form Reward Speaking Valued Wanting
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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Accurate Blackmail Children Feeling Good Health Language Mad Moral Morality Sanity Scientific Speak
Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience.
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Blind Spots Experience Human Limit Recognition
We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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Hatred Most Self Stupid
Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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Appetite Cure Excesses Feeling Hopelessness Self
There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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Happy Marriage More Nothing Scandalous
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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Adult Hang Mother Psychology Taught Understanding
I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
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Anand Thakur
The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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Dictate Everything Influence Nothing Past
The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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Cliched Criticism Impoverisjhed Self Stupid Vocabulary

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