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Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious.

Sex has never been an obsession with me. It's just like eating a bag of crisps. Quite nice, but nothing marvellous.

Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order was a zyxedist.

Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today.

Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.

Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.

Success in life is about obsession

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.

The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.

Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.

The danger in mysticism is that you push yourself too far into the nagual too soon. This is obsession.

The left's obsession with the high incomes of corporate executives never seems to extend to equally high - or higher - incomes of professional athletes, entertainers, or best-selling authors like Danielle Steel.

The creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted.

The fears and anxieties and obsessions wrapped up in being a parent.

The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.

The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.

There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.

The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.

The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure.

The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.

This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.

To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.

Unattractive people are more obsessed with looks.

Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.

We're a culture that's obsessed with people who make and who squander ridiculous amounts of wealth, which seemed an obsession well worth interrogating in a novel. That probably accounts for what some have called the book's "sweeping" feel, but I don't know that I set out to be cinematic. I wouldn't know how to do that in a novel, specifically.

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.

Women have this obsession with shoes.

Writing is not hard work, it is simply an obsession.

There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with family.

We see each other [ with Iman Abdulmajid] a lot. I couldn't stand to be separated for months. It became quickly apparent to me that I needed to find a balance between my absolute work obsession and a private life that we could share without my disappearing all the time.

We were both music-obsessed, each in our own way. If we didn't entirely understand the other person's obsession, it didn't matter, because we understood our own.

While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.

Writing is putting one's obsessions in order.

You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.

A demon obsessed with being human is a demon no longer

All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.

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

All the great stories are about obsession and people who are obsessed.

You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit.

A cult is a group of people who share an obsessive devotion to a person or idea. The cults described in this book use violent tactics to recruit, indoctrinate, and keep members. Ritual abuse is defined as the emotionally, physically, and sexually abusive acts performed by violent cults. Most violent cults do not openly express their beliefs and practices, and they tend to live separately in noncommunal environments to avoid detection. Some victims of ritual abuse are children abused outside the home by nonfamily members, in public settings such as day care. Other victims are children and teenagers who are forced by their parents to witness and participate in violent rituals. Adult ritual abuse victims often include these grown children who were forced from childhood to be a member of the group. Other adult and teenage victims are people who unknowingly joined social groups or organizations that slowly manipulated and blackmailed them into becoming permanent members of the group. All cases of ritual abuse, no matter what the age of the victim, involve intense physical and emotional trauma. Violent cults may sacrifice humans and animals as part of religious rituals. They use torture to silence victims and other unwilling participants. Ritual abuse victims say they are degraded and humiliated and are often forced to torture, kill, and sexually violate other helpless victims. The purpose of the ritual abuse is usually indoctrination. The cults intend to destroy these victims' free will by undermining their sense of safety in the world and by forcing them to hurt others. In the last ten years, a number of people have been convicted on sexual abuse charges in cases where the abused children had reported elements of ritual child abuse. These children described being raped by groups of adults who wore costumes or masks and said they were forced to witness religious-type rituals in which animals and humans were tortured or killed. In one case, the defense introduced in court photographs of the children being abused by the defendants[.1] In another case, the police found tunnels etched with crosses and pentacles along with stone altars and candles in a cemetery where abuse had been reported. The defendants in this case pleaded guilty to charges of incest, cruelty, and indecent assault.[2] Ritual abuse allegations have been made in England, the United States, and Canada.[3] Many myths abound concerning the parents and children who report ritual abuse. Some people suggest that the tales of ritual abuse are "mass hysteria." They say the parents of these children who report ritual abuse are often overly zealous Christians on a "witch-hunt" to persecute satanists. These skeptics say the parents are fearful of satanism, and they use their knowledge of the Black Mass (a historically well-known, sexualized ritual in which animals and humans are sacrificed) to brainwash their children into saying they were abused by satanists.[4] In 1992 I conducted a study to separate fact from fiction in regard to the disclosures of children who report ritual abuse.[5] The study was conducted through Believe the Children, a national organization that provides support and educational sources for ritual abuse survivors and their families.

All right, you caught me. I'm secretly obsessed with you and spend all my free time writing about you in my journal. 'Dear Diary, today Will was an ass for the 467th day in a row. He's so dreamy

All these men who loved Emma, I think. For all her problems, men were fixated on her. Will anyone ever feel like that about me?

All the great novels are about obsession and people who are obsessed.

Although pride and obsession can feel like love, I guess.

And [Benji] cheats on you, Beck. A lot. Compulsively. He is in intense pursuit of a performance artist who fucks with his head the way he fucks with yours.

And even so, I had discovered, I was afraid to free myself. “That” had grown too much inside me, leaving me full. I’d be helpless if I were ever cured. After all, what was I now, I felt, but a reflection? Were I to eradicate Daniel, I’d be a blank mirror.