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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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Down Getting Minimum Monogamy Version Way
The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
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Access Child Children Finding might Object Obstacle
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
we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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Continually Look See Threat Unable Unwilling
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
Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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Adult Most Nostalgia Understood Violent Wanting
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
People change, but there really are limits.
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Change Limit People Reality
You write to find out what you believe.
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Believe Find Out Writing
I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
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Anand Thakur
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
There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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Happy Marriage More Nothing Scandalous
Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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End Failed Hero Impractical Mean Pragmatist Unrealistic
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
Transgression is a quest for solitude
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Quest Solitude Transgression
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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