The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
ADAM PHILLIPSThe child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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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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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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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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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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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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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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The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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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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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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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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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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