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Transgression is a quest for solitude

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You write to find out what you believe.
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Believe Find Out Writing
Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
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Analyst Epistemologist Lover Notoriously Paranoiacs Reader Sign Wonder
Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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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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Child Cultivated Encourage Feeling Form Reward Speaking Valued Wanting
People change, but there really are limits.
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Change Limit People Reality
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
I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
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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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Importance Preoccupation Pressing Recognition Recognize Sanity Word
Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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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
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
To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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Discover Grow Growing Up Unequal
To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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Faith Keep Recognition Recognizable Stay
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
Transgression is a quest for solitude
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Quest Solitude Transgression

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