Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
ADAM PHILLIPSTo keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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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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We are children for a very long time.
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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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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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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 big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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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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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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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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People change, but there really are limits.
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