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I don't know if you have ever been the object of someone's obsession - but if it's not of your desire, it is horrible. It is really awful.

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

Any obsession is dangerous.

Obsessions turn people off.

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.

Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.

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.

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.

Without obsession, life is nothing.

Cure for an obsession: get another one.