Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
ADAM PHILLIPSWe are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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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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You write to find out what you believe.
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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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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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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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I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
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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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We are children for a very long time.
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There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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