I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
ADAM PHILLIPSTo keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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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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We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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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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It is as if to say: if these are not valued – if these forms of wanting and feeling and speaking and doing – are not cultivated and encouraged and rewarded in the child, then the child will be mad.
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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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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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Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience.
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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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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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You write to find out what you believe.
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There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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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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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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