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Jacques Lacan

"The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience."

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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."

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Donna Grant

"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."

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Donna Grant

"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."

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Donna Grant

"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."

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Donna Grant

"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."

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Donna Grant

"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."

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Donna Grant

"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."

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Donna Grant

"There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings."

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Donna Grant

"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."

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Donna Grant

"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."

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Jacques Lacan
"The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience."

Experience

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Jacques Lacan
"Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless."

Behavior

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Jacques Lacan
"Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary."

Art

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Jacques Lacan
"Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly."

Want

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Jacques Lacan
"What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?"

Cards

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Jacques Lacan
"What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?"

Relationship

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Jacques Lacan
"Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters."

Flying

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Jacques Lacan
"In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth."

Language

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Jacques Lacan
"A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex as Other, as absolute Other, what does the most recent development in topology allow us to posit?"

Sex

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Jacques Lacan
"Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously."

Talent

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