Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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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There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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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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We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe
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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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You write to find out what you believe.
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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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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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