Transgression is a quest for solitude
ADAM PHILLIPSWe 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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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience.
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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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People change, but there really are limits.
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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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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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You write to find out what you believe.
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There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
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