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Idealization (n.) ennobles reality: seeing a god in the sexual drive saturated it with exalted notions, and the Greeks made the glorious bacchante out of epidemics of epilepsy.
Idealization (n.) of oneself by others — always being taken for something higher than one is — is the most painful feeling: something in you is a lie, as necessary as your honesty and forever undermining it.
Idealization (n.) is the Midas touch: everything turned glittering and ideally unapproachable, until one evil day he finds he will starve, longing like a hungry man for something he cannot turn to gold.
Idealization (n.) is our fairest ability and must not tyrannize us — or truth will one day leave with the words: 'you liar from the very heart, what have I to do with you?'