There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
ADAM PHILLIPSBelieving in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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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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There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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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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You write to find out what you believe.
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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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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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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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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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People change, but there really are limits.
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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