There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
ADAM PHILLIPSWanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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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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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
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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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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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We are children for a very long time.
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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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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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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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There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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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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