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1 " But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival. "
― Adrienne Rich , On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
2 " In Freud’s story our possibilities for satisfaction depend upon our capacity for frustration; if we can’t let ourselves feel our frustration – and, surprisingly, this is a surprisingly difficult thing to do – we can’t get a sense of what it is we might be wanting, and missing, of what might really give us pleasure. "
― Adam Phillips , Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life
3 " Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities "
