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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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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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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life.
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I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
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People change, but there really are limits.
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Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience.
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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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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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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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