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 ,
ADAM PHILLIPSTransgression is a quest for solitude
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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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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There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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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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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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You write to find out what you believe.
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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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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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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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I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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