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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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We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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Hatred Most Self Stupid
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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Adult Hang Mother Psychology Taught Understanding
Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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Child Children Independent People Self Try
Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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Appetite Cure Excesses Feeling Hopelessness Self
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
The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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Dictate Everything Influence Nothing Past
People change, but there really are limits.
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Change Limit People Reality
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
To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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Faith Keep Recognition Recognizable Stay
The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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Child Doubt Food Hide Love
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
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
Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition.
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
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