The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
ADAM PHILLIPSTo keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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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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Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
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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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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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We are children for a very long time.
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You write to find out what you believe.
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People change, but there really are limits.
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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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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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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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