What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.
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.
An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
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.
At any given time, no matter how deeply you are in love with one person, they're appealing to a very specific side of you.
Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.
Obsessions turn people off.
To be the object of someone's obsession is horrible.
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