I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
ADAM PHILLIPSLovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
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We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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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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We are children for a very long time.
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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 can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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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 child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience.
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There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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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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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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