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psychoanalysis is an account of how and why modern people are so frightened of each other. What
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We need, in other words, to know something about what we don't get, and about the importance of not getting it.
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Unkindness involves a failure of the imagination so acute that it threatens not just our happiness but our sanity. Caring
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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We make ourselves out of the demands others make of us, and out of whatever else we can use.
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Falling in love, finding your passion, are attempts to locate, to picture, to represent what you unconsciously feel frustrated about, and by.
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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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Two's company, three's a couple.
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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden. There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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Everything depends on what we would rather do than change.
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When God is dead, kindness is permitted. When God is dead, kindness is all that people have.
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Satisfaction is no more the solution to frustration than certainty is the solution to skepticism.
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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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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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Kindness consistently preoccupies us, and yet most of us are unable to live a life guided by it.
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The only satisfactions available are the satisfactions of reality, which are themselves frustrating.
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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.
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We don't have relationships to get our needs met, we have relationships to discover what our needs might be.
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You write to find out what you believe.
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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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Loneliness is the inevitable cost of looking after ourselves.
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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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In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.
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There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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