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Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.

Jacques Lacan

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Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine – what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.

Anne Tyler

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I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and it became this growing, mad obsession.

Kyle MacLachlan

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

Lucian Freud

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What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

Eugene Delacroix

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Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

Michael Caine

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

George Sand

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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it’s become increasingly sweeter for me.

Candice Bergen

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It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.

Mike Leigh

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I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.

Illeana Douglas

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