Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
ADAM PHILLIPSTo our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need.
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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We are children for a very long time.
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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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Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition.
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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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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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There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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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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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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People change, but there really are limits.
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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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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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