The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
ADAM PHILLIPSPeople change, but there really are limits.
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There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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We are children for a very long time.
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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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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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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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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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