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psychoanalysis is an account of how and why modern people are so frightened of each other. What

We need, in other words, to know something about what we don't get, and about the importance of not getting it.

And reality matters because it is the only thing that can satisfy us.

Unkindness involves a failure of the imagination so acute that it threatens not just our happiness but our sanity. Caring

Transgression is a quest for solitude

We make ourselves out of the demands others make of us, and out of whatever else we can use.

Falling in love, finding your passion, are attempts to locate, to picture, to represent what you unconsciously feel frustrated about, and by.

The past influences everything and dictates nothing.

I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?

Two's company, three's a couple.

Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden. There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage

Everything depends on what we would rather do than change.

When God is dead, kindness is permitted. When God is dead, kindness is all that people have.

Kindness consistently preoccupies us, and yet most of us are unable to live a life guided by it.

The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

Anger, then, is only for the engaged; for those with projects that matter.

The people we fall in love with we find singularly captivating, as are any of the people (or ideas) that inspire us, for better or for worse.

Satisfaction is no more the solution to frustration than certainty is the solution to skepticism.

Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.

The only satisfactions available are the satisfactions of reality, which are themselves frustrating.

We don't have relationships to get our needs met, we have relationships to discover what our needs might be.

You write to find out what you believe.

Wanting is what we do to survive, and we want only what isn't there

Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.

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

Loneliness is the inevitable cost of looking after ourselves.

Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.

We can only be really realistic after we have tried our optimism out.

In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.

There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs

To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.