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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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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
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
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
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
I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
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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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Ourselves Spot Tyrannized Unacceptable Whatever
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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Child Cultivated Encourage Feeling Form Reward Speaking Valued Wanting
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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Aliveness Bear Dealing Everybody Everything Need
People change, but there really are limits.
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Change Limit People Reality
You write to find out what you believe.
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Believe Find Out Writing
The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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Cliched Criticism Impoverisjhed Self Stupid Vocabulary
The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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Art Big Secret True Want
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 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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Accurate Blackmail Children Feeling Good Health Language Mad Moral Morality Sanity Scientific Speak
To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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Discover Grow Growing Up Unequal
Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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Adult Most Nostalgia Understood Violent Wanting
Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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Appetite Cure Excesses Feeling Hopelessness Self
The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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Child Doubt Food Hide Love
We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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Hatred Most Self Stupid
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
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
There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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Happy Hidden Marriage Nothing Possibility Scandalous Terrorizing
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
We are children for a very long time.
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Children Long Time Very
The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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Child Children Independent People Self Try
The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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Dictate Everything Influence Nothing Past

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