Stephen Grosz quotes
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“It is less painful, it turns out, to feel betrayed than to feel forgotten.”
-- Stephen GroszSource : Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.83, W. W. Norton & Company
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“When we cannot find a way of telling our story, our story tells us-we dream these stories, we develop symptoms, or we find ourselves acting in ways we don’t understand.”
-- Stephen GroszSource : Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company
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“Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.”
-- Stephen GroszSource : Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.210, W. W. Norton & Company
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“Being present, whether with children, with friends, or even with oneself, is hard work. But isn't this attentiveness - the feeling that someone is trying to think about us - something we want more than praise?”
-- Stephen GroszSource : Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company
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“Psychoanalysts are fond of pointing out that the past is alive in the present. But the future is alive in the present too. The future is not some place we’re going to, but an idea in our mind now. It is something we’re creating, that in turn creates us. The future is a fantasy that shapes our present.”
-- Stephen GroszSource : Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.157, W. W. Norton & Company
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“I want to change, but not if it means changing.”
-- Stephen GroszSource : Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company
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“Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine”
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“For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.”
Source : Anita Brookner (2012). “Look at Me”, p.9, Vintage
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“That which is painful sharpens one's love.”
Source : Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.131, Anchor
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