The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
ADAM PHILLIPSBelieving in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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We are children for a very long time.
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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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To our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need.
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People change, but there really are limits.
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Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition.
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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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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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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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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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