Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
ADAM PHILLIPSWe are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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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 at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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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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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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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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Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience.
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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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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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People change, but there really are limits.
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