There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
ADAM PHILLIPSThe child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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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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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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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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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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Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition.
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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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Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
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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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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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