Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.
ADAM PHILLIPS
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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 child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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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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The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
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You write to find out what you believe.
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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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People change, but there really are limits.
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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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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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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