Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
ADAM PHILLIPSThe vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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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 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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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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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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There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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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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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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People change, but there really are limits.
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We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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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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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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