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We are children for a very long time.

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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 tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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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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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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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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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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Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition.
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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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Grudge Hook Meeting Mother Need never
We are children for a very long time.
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Children Long Time Very
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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Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
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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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