Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience.
ADAM PHILLIPSThe child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
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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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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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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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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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We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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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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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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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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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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