Adam Phillips Quotes
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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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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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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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People change, but there really are limits. One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life. We are children for a very long time.