The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
ADAM PHILLIPSThe big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
ADAM PHILLIPSThe child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
ADAM PHILLIPSEverybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.
ADAM PHILLIPSTransgression is a quest for solitude
ADAM PHILLIPSTo grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
ADAM PHILLIPSTo keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
ADAM PHILLIPSThere is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
ADAM PHILLIPSPeople change, but there really are limits.
ADAM PHILLIPSWanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
ADAM PHILLIPSExcesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
ADAM PHILLIPSThe past influences everything and dictates nothing.
ADAM PHILLIPSMonogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
ADAM PHILLIPSThe vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
ADAM PHILLIPSThe 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 PHILLIPSwe are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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