Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
ADAM PHILLIPSMonogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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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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One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life.
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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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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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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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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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Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
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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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People change, but there really are limits.
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There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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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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