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Adam Phillips

“You can’t have a desire without an inspiring sense of lack. What we do to our frustration to make it bearable – evade it, void it, misrecognize it, displace it, hide it, project it, deny it, idealize it, and so on – takes the sting out of its tail.”

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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