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People change, but there really are limits.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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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Aliveness Bear Dealing Everybody Everything Need
The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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Cliched Criticism Impoverisjhed Self Stupid Vocabulary
To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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Faith Keep Recognition Recognizable Stay
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
The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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Art Big Secret True Want
The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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Child Children Independent People Self Try
I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
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Anand Thakur
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
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 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
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
Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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Adult Most Nostalgia Understood Violent Wanting
We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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Hatred Most Self Stupid
There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
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Always Belief Destroy Destroying Love Need
There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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Happy Marriage More Nothing Scandalous
The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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Dictate Everything Influence Nothing Past

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