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Transgression is a quest for solitude

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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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The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
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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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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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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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One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life.
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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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