Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.
ADAM PHILLIPSThe big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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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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I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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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 child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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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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We are children for a very long time.
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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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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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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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