we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
ADAM PHILLIPSTo grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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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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One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life.
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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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We are children for a very long time.
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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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There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
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You write to find out what you believe.
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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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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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