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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 continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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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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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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Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition.
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We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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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 child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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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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The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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You write to find out what you believe.
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