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Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.

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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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Child Doubt Food Hide Love
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
To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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Faith Keep Recognition Recognizable Stay
Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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End Failed Hero Impractical Mean Pragmatist Unrealistic
The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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Child Children Independent People Self Try
You write to find out what you believe.
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Believe Find Out Writing
We are children for a very long time.
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Children Long Time Very
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 past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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Dictate Everything Influence Nothing Past
The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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Cliched Criticism Impoverisjhed Self Stupid Vocabulary
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
We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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Hatred Most Self Stupid
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 continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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Continually Look See Threat Unable Unwilling
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

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