The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
ADAM PHILLIPSThe past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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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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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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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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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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There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
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There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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People change, but there really are limits.
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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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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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