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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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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 tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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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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Importance Preoccupation Pressing Recognition Recognize Sanity Word
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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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 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
People change, but there really are limits.
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Change Limit People Reality
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
Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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Adulthood Believe Childhood Religion Solution
The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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Dictate Everything Influence Nothing Past
There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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Happy Marriage More Nothing Scandalous
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
Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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Appetite Cure Excesses Feeling Hopelessness Self

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