we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
ADAM PHILLIPSThe past influences everything and dictates nothing.
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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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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Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience.
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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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The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
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We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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We are children for a very long time.
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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 past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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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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People change, but there really are limits.
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You write to find out what you believe.
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