we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
ADAM PHILLIPSThe vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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You write to find out what you believe.
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There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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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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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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The whole notion of sanity may be an attempt to medicalize morality – to speak of the good in the language of health: to make us more accurate, more scientific in our wanting – but by the same token it becomes a form of moral blackmail.
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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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The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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We are children for a very long time.
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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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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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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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