“ That is my major preoccupation — memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it. ”
- Elie Wiesel- Copy
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“ I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies. ”
- Mike Leigh- Copy
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“ It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after life. ”
- Arianna Stassinopoulos- Copy
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“ People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable. ”
- Mick Jagger- Copy
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“ Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact. ”
- Marlene Dietrich- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
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“ The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession. ”
- Iris Murdoch- Copy
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“ The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession. ”
- George Sand- Copy
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“ The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts. ”
- Henry Moore- Copy
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“ I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession. ”
- Brooks Robinson- Copy
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“ A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is, but often prompts us to rearrange the past. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. ”
- Elie Wiesel- Copy
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“ The fixation of the theater in one language — written words, music, lights, noises — betokens its imminent ruin. ”
- Antonin Artaud- Copy
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“ There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge. ”
- Hunter S. Thompson- Copy
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“ Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never… never forget it. ”
- Curtis Judalet- Copy
- 2K
“ The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession. ”
- Phyllis McGinley- Copy
- 3.4K
“ It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey. ”
- Jean Racine- Copy
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“ Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession. ”
- Carlos Castaneda- Copy
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“ OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for every day in the week, and on Sundays by two. They were frequently seen, always walking in his shadow, when he had one, but were finally driven away by the village notary, a holy man; but they took the peasant with them, for he vanished utterly… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face. ”
- Claude Monet- Copy
- 2.4K
“ At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds. ”
- Salvatore Quasimodo- Copy
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“ My ongoing investigation is far from an obsession, but an excellent opportunity to provide a platform for applying modern science to a very old, highly visible case in the hope that we might learn something that could help solve modern crimes. ”
- Patricia Cornwell- Copy
- 333
“ I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about. ”
- Chuck Palahniuk- Copy
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