we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
ADAM PHILLIPSThere is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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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You write to find out what you believe.
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We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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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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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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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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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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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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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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There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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We are children for a very long time.
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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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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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