To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
ADAM PHILLIPSPeople change, but there really are limits.
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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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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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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I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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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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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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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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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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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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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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You write to find out what you believe.
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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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