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Transgression is a quest for solitude
ADAM PHILLIPS

Quest Solitude Transgression
The whole notion of sanity may be an attempt to medicalize morality – to speak of the good in the language of health: to make us more accurate, more scientific in our wanting – but by the same token it becomes a form of moral blackmail.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Accurate Blackmail Children Feeling Good Health Language Mad Moral Morality Sanity Scientific Speak
You write to find out what you believe.
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Believe Find Out Writing
We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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Ourselves Spot Tyrannized Unacceptable Whatever
Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Importance Preoccupation Pressing Recognition Recognize Sanity Word
Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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Appetite Cure Excesses Feeling Hopelessness Self
The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Cliched Criticism Impoverisjhed Self Stupid Vocabulary
There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Happy Hidden Marriage Nothing Possibility Scandalous Terrorizing
The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Art Big Secret True Want
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 ,
ADAM PHILLIPS

Adult Hang Mother Psychology Taught Understanding
When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe
ADAM PHILLIPS

Comprehend Define Describe Ourselves Rather Recognize
To our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Grudge Hook Meeting Mother Need never
The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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Child Doubt Food Hide Love
Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Aliveness Bear Dealing Everybody Everything Need
We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Hatred Most Self Stupid
we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
ADAM PHILLIPS

Continually Look See Threat Unable Unwilling

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