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Obsessing
«Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.»
Author: Eugene O'Neill
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Obsessions
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fairy, fairy tale, kingdom, obsess, obsessed, Obsessing, searching, tale
«The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.»
«People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.»
«Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else»
Author: Ugo Betti
(Playwright, Poet)
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Murder
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consistent, General Idea, in general, murderers, obsess, obsessed, Obsessing
«The homosexual subculture based on brief, barren assignations is, in part, a dark mirror of the sex-obsessed majority culture.»
Author: George F. Will
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assignation, assignations, barren, brief, homosexual, obsess, obsessed, Obsessing, subculture
«Because I am a bad girl, people always automatically think that I am a bad girl. Or that I carry a dark secret with me or that I'm obsessed with death. The truth is that I am probably the least morbid person one can meet. If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.»
Author: Angelina Jolie
(Actress)
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automatically, Bad Girl, Bad Girls, love life, morbid, obsess, obsessed, Obsessing, some other
«OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for every day in the week, and on Sundays by two. They were frequently seen, always walking in his shadow, when he had one, but were finally driven away by the village notary, a holy man; but they took the peasant with them, for he vanished utterly. A devil thrown out of a woman by the Archbishop of Rheims ran through the trees, pursued by a hundred persons, until the open country was reached, where by a leap higher than a church spire he escaped into a bird. A chaplain in Cromwell's army exorcised a soldier's obsessing devil by throwing the soldier into the water, when the devil came to the surface. The soldier, unfortunately, did not.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Obsessions
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«Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction, for others' affliction, for the affliction of both and experiences pain and grief»
«I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentiona»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
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Anger
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circulate, circulating, darkened, decade, dives, expire, expires, Obsessing, Private Lives