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#1

“I say nothing to him I love him”
― St. Thérèse of Lisieux

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#2

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
― Edmund Burke

tags: evil

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#3

“In this century, the human race faces, once again, the virulent reign of the State—of the State now armed with the fruits of man’s creative powers, confiscated and perverted to its own aims. The last few centuries were times when men tried to place constitutional and other limits on the State, only to find that such limits, as with all other attempts, have failed. Of all the numerous forms that governments have taken over the centuries, of all the concepts and institutions that have been tried, none has succeeded in keeping the State in check. The problem of the State is evidently as far from solution as ever. Perhaps new paths of inquiry must be explored, if the successful, final solution of the State question is ever to be attained.”
― Murray N. Rothbard, Anatomy of the State

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#4

“At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.”
― Benjamin J. Carey, Barefoot in November

tags: anger, art, authors, babies, birth, books, boredom, death, depression, disdain, disease, disgust, distance, dying, enjoyment, family, fondness, friendship, grieving, happiness, hate, illness, knowlege, literature, love, marriage, mourning, obsession, passion, reading, romance, sadness, thirst

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#5

“We need repentance. You see, repentance is not only going to a priest and confessing. We must free ourselves from the obsession of thoughts. We fall many times during our life, and it is absolutely necessary to reveal everything [in Confession] to a priest who is a witness to our repentance.

Repentance is the renewal of life. This means we must free ourselves from all our negative traits and turn toward absolute good. No sin is unforgivable except the sin of unrepentance.”
― Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica, Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

tags: christianity, confession, eastern-orthodoxy, forgiveness, good, obsession, repentance, spirituality, thinking, thoughts

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#6

“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!”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

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#7

“I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

tags: love, obsession, selfish-love

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#8

“Each night I lie and dream about the one
Who kissed me and awakened my desire
I spent a single hour with him alone
And since that hour, my days are layed with fire.”
― L.J. Smith, Secret Circle Booklet

tags: cassie-blake, lust, obsession, yearning

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#9

“I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin.

I want.”
― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

tags: desire, obsession, want

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#10

“Mujer, you own my soul.”
― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry

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#11

“Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

tags: love, obsession, passion

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#12

“To have the beginning of a truly great story, you need to have a character you're completely and utterly obsessed with. Without obsession, to the point of a maddening addiction,there's no point to continue. ”
― Jennifer Salaiz

tags: addiction, madness, obsession, writing

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#13

“...an obsession is a way for damaged people to damage themselves more.”
― Mark Barrowcliffe, The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons And Growing Up Strange

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#14

“One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into
a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession.
Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic,
physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating.”
― Niyi Osundare

tags: obsession, writing, writing-philosophy

21 likes

#15

“You fueled my obession, even encouraged it and your selfishness ruined my life”
― Novala Takemoto, Missin' (Novel)

tags: obsession

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#16

“Mine first --mine last-- mine even in the grave!”
― Louisa May Alcott

tags: gothic-romance, obsession

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#17

“We have formed a sick little friendship over the past year”
― Dee Remy, There Once Was A Boy

tags: friendship-and-love, obsession, paranormal, romance, sex, sickness

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#18

“Obession makes everything possible”
― Novala Takemoto, Missin' (Novel)

tags: obsession

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#19

“Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck and labour, interest your readers. What merely interests you is sure to bore them. (from Workbook)”
― Steven Heighton

tags: advice-for-writers, obsession, reading

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#20

“The knives of jealousy are honed on details.”
― Ruth Rendell

tags: jealousy, love, obsession, stalkers, stalking

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#21

“Sometimes you walk past a pretty girl on the street there's something beyond beauty in her face, something warm and smart and inviting, and in the three seconds you have to look at her, you actually fall in love, and in those moments, you can actually know the taste of her kiss, the feel of her skin against yours, the sound of her laugh, how she'll look at you and make you whole. And then she's gone, and in the five seconds afterwards, you mourn her loss with more sadness than you'll ever admit to. ”
― Jonathan Tropper, How to Talk to a Widower

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#22

“It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: attention, desire, evil, insanity, little-minds, madness, maniac, michael-bassey-johnson, obsession, possession, scrutiny, shallow, shallow-minds, simpleton, simpletons, surrender, vain, vanity

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#23

“My landlord lives in the flat at the bottom of the stairs. I rent a studio flat from him, and live at the top of the staircase. There are two more flights of stairs and four more flats, but it’s me he is obsessed with.”
― craig stone, Life Knocks

tags: anxiety, love, obsession

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#24

“Enemies are the people who think about you more than your friends do.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

tags: enemies, enemy, foe, friends, hatred, obsession

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#25

“Mature men look into the ladies hearts.
Immature ones mention constantly their body parts.
They mentioned sex like they’re obsessed.
Enslaved by drugs and alcohol; helpless.”
― Ricardo Derose

tags: addicts, immaturity, immorality, obsession

12 likes

#26

“Love and hate are not opposites; they are siblings birthed by obsession.”
― Steve Maraboli

tags: hate, love, obsession

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#27

“For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.”
― Garcilaso de la Vega

tags: devotion, love, obsession, poetry

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#28

“It's people with obsessions who do the real harm in the world.”
― Dick Francis, 10 Lb. Penalty

tags: obsession

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#29

“The Soul selects her own Society—
Then—shuts the Door—
To her divine Majority—
Present no more—

Unmoved—she notes the Chariots—pausing—
At her low Gate—
Unmoved—an Emperor be kneeling
Upon her Mat—

I've known her—from an ample nation—
Choose One—
Then—close the Valves of her attention—
Like Stone—”
― Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems

tags: poetry

35 likes

#30

“Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you...”
― Sarah McLachlan

tags: breakups, emotion, music, musicians, obsession, relationships, singer-songwriters, songwriters

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