To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
ADAM PHILLIPSThe child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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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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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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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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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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We are children for a very long time.
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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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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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Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
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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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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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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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