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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

Any obsession is dangerous.

Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.

Without obsession, life is nothing.

Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration between one's conscious mind and those obsessions that, one by one, present themselves as stepping-stones.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person - to it just being a thing you occasionally do.

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.