Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
ADAM PHILLIPSEverybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.
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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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People change, but there really are limits.
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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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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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Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition.
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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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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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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 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.
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We are children for a very long time.
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe
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