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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.

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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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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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We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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