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Adam Phillips

“as though frustration were an unbearable form of self-doubt, a state in which we can so little tolerate not knowing what we want, not knowing whether it is available, and not having it that we fabricate certainties to fill the void (we fill in the gaps with states of conviction). The frustration is itself a temptation scene, one in which we must invent something to be tempted by.”

Adam Phillips, Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life
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Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips
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