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It seems to me that evil is a kind of ultimate greed, a greed that is so all-encompassing that it ca...

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Guys like you can't escape the city. Hell, you a got a blood contract with this place. You're marrie...

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Mickey SpillaneKiss Her Goodbye: An Otto Penzler Book

Determination could easily become obsession.

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N. K. JemisinThe Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

When two people love each other as we do, no one can come between them, no one," I said, amazed at t...

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Orhan PamukThe Museum of Innocence

I touched you and my life stopped

No. She told me she was going to marry him, to get French nationality . . . She was obsessed with ge...

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Marie, let’s suppose that two firemen go into a forest to put out a small fire. Afterwards, when the...

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I am the scourge of God

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Peter AckroydThe Trial of Elizabeth Cree

Insecurity of the spirit demands completeness elsewhere.

He really would have done all that for her, you see, and done it believing he'd burn in hell forever...

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Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you.Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you.And without feet I ca...

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You become what you think about all day long.

Create a character with an obsession, then follow.

Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you...

In his fight against the powers of the surrounding world his first weapon was magic, the first forer...

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Sigmund FreudNew Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

Holding a precious book meant to Mendel what an assignment with a woman might to another man. These ...

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Stefan ZweigThe Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig

The exhausted mind is obsession's easiest prey.

It’s not like love at first sight, really. It’s more like… gravity moves. When you see her, suddenly...

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The outside world holds no interest for me without you." -Edward

Don't be self-conscious, if I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it.

Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obses...

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The only thing more dangerous then a vampire crazed with blood lust was a vampire crazed with anythi...

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Reality isn’t the most pleasant of atmospheres, Lieutenant. But we like to think we’re engineered fo...

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The giving of undue prominence to one fact brings others inexorably on the head of the student to av...

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Thomas HughesTom Brown's Schooldays & Tom Brown at Oxford

It was as if I were an oyster and somebody forced a grain of sand into my shell -- a grain of sand t...

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All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are...

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I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ...

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Victor HugoThe Hunchback of Notre Dame

All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.

He loved her in spite of her unlovableness. Armande had many trying, thought not necessarily rare, t...

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Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.My sin, my soul.

You must be careful. There are things that should never be given up. You must persevere.

I would fight of course. Oh, I would fight. Better destroy everything than surrender her.

and I looked and looked at her, and knew as clearly as I know I am to die, that I loved her more tha...

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Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking ...

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We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives...

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I had possessed her - and she never knew it.

He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He woul...

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Of course a miracle may happen, and you may be a great painter, but you must confess the chances are...

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I would like to hear your life as you heard it, coming at you, instead of hearing it as I do, a sobe...

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He was possessed now with that obsession for the cross in which so many lips have worn themselves aw...

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Émile ZolaLa Faute de l'abbé Mouret

All scholars are a bit mad. All obsessions are dangerous.

A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; aft...

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Alan RyanOn Politics: A New History of Political Philosophy

...the true test of the perversity of a pleasure is that it occupies a disproportionate amount of th...

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What big eyes you have. Eyes of an incomparable luminosity, the numinous phosphorescence of the eyes...

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Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mi...

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It was as if I had only just been able to see colours and shapes for the first time. I was so enthra...

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Anne RiceInterview with the Vampire

From the first day I met her, she was the only woman to me. Every day of that voyage I loved her mor...

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I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not...

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All that existed was Jace; all she felt, hoped, breathed, wanted, and saw was Jace. Nothing else mat...

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From the first time I saw you, I've belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me. -Jace

Passion out of passion's obstacles.

All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their...

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I wait on my fix:I am a poetry junkie.

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Charles BukowskiPlay the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

It may be the character of his mind, to be always in singular need of occupation. That may be, in pa...

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Charles DickensA Tale of Two Cities

I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish ...

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Love? I wanted to go with him, to be on the stronger side, for him to spare me, like one who seeks s...

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Clarice LispectorThe Complete Stories

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.

There's no talent here, this is hard work. This is an obsession. Talent does not exist, we are all e...

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It was gentler here, softer, its seethe the quietest of whispers, as if, in deference to a drawing r...

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Conrad AikenGreat Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

Every man who is acutely alive is acutely wrestling his own soul.

She has done for me at last, Rachel my torment.

I like the relaxed way in which the Japanese approach religion. I think of myself as basically a mor...

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It's people with obsessions who do the real harm in the world.

As always when he worked with this much concentration he began to feel a sense of introverting press...

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It's almost relaxing to know I'll die fairly soon, as it's a comfort not to obsess about my next org...

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The thought of her gave me such a continual anguish that I could no more forget her than an aching t...

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Over and over I played her favorite Arvo Pärt, as a way of being with her; and she had only to menti...

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I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mo...

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But does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest of us,...

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To muse for long unwearied hours with my attention riveted to some frivolous device upon the margin,...

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The teeth!—the teeth!—they were here, and there, and everywhere, and visibly and palpably before me;...

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Edgar Allan PoeTales of Mystery and Imagination

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendsh...

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Man's greatest wisdom is to choose his obsession well.

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Eliphas LeviEl libro de los sabios: Obra postuma

I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every wor...

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If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.

May she wake in torment!" he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a s...

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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind

Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEINGHAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things eve...

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i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right t...

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She hates everything that is not what she longs for.

Have only this consolation--that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, stu...

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H. P. LovecraftThe Case of Charles Dexter Ward

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the eddies; one captain, seizing...

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What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master...

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Aye, aye, it must be so. I've oversailed him. How, got the start? Aye, he's chasing ME now; not I, H...

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And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.

See? Reading you all night has strengthened me. That’s what God’s love does. If you’re beginning to ...

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You only have to start saying of something : 'Ah, how beautiful ! We must photograph it !' and you a...

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

The first time I saw you, my heart fell. The second time I saw you, my heart fell. The third time fo...

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James FreyA Million Little Pieces

Once you start recognizing your own obsessions, you know you’re getting old.

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity...

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It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took yo...

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I think you can love a person too much.You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from t...

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She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do ...

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My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me?

And when I look around the apartment where I now am,—when I see Charlotte’s apparel lying before me,...

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I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have not...

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A demon obsessed with being human is a demon no longer