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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
Adam Phillips
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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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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.
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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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There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs.
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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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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
Adam Phillips