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“He was possessed now with that obsession for the cross in which so many lips have worn themselves away on crucifixes.”
“Ever since her obsession with Jonathan Cain, a deranged transfer student who had been at Sweet Valley for a month, Enids life had been entirely guyless.”
“Man's greatest wisdom is to choose his obsession well.”
“She’s a sickness in my head.”Then get well.What you feel is self-made and attended to over time. You want to let go but are unwilling to let go because you are getting something from it; An escape?...”
“The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.”
“All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
“The outside world holds no interest for me without you." -Edward”
“And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.”
“It's all you think about, all you talk about, and all you want us to talk about. What in the world would we call something like that? Oh, yeah! An obsession!”
“I began to understand that the most worthwhile obsession is an obsession that is actually independent of the object of fixation. The object is only borrowed as a pretext, a means, an environment, t...”
“Reality isn’t the most pleasant of atmospheres, Lieutenant. But we like to think we’re engineered for it. It’s a pretty fine piece of engineering, the kind an engineer can respect. Drag in an obses...”
