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Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.


Joan D. Vinge


#chose #human #i #immortality #mortality

and I looked and looked at her, and knew as clearly as I know I am to die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth, or hoped for anywhere else. She was only the faint violet whiff and dead leaf echo of the nymphet I had rolled myself upon with such cries in the past; an echo on the brink of a russet ravine, with a far wood under a white sky, and brown leaves choking the brook, and one last cricket in the crisp weeds... but thank God it was not that echo alone that I worshipped. What I used to pamper among the tangled vines of my heart, mon grand pch radieux, had dwindled to its essence: sterile and selfish vice, all that I cancelled and cursed. You may jeer at me, and threaten to clear the court, but until I am gagged and halfthrottled, I will shout my poor truth. I insist the world know how much I loved my Lolita, this Lolita, pale and polluted, and big with another’s child, but still gray-eyed, still sooty-lashed, still auburn and almond, still Carmencita, still mine; Changeons de vie, ma Carmen, allons vivre quelque, part o nous ne serons jamais spars; Ohio? The wilds of Massachusetts? No matter, even if those eyes of hers would fade to myopic fish, and her nipples swell and crack, and her lovely young velvety delicate delta be tainted and torneven then I would go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of your dear wan face, at the mere sound of your raucous young voice, my Lolita.


Vladimir Nabokov


#obsession #poetic #imagination

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.


Mario Vargas Llosa


#business #cut #lonely #lonely business #memories

Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.


P. J. O'Rourke


#mine #mostly #obsession #thinking #zero-sum

Obsessions turn people off.


Grover Norquist


#off #people #turn

I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.


Yvonne Strahovski


#birds #game #i #know #obsession

Women have this obsession with shoes.


Alexandra Paul


#obsession #shoes

He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.


W. Somerset Maugham


#misery #obsession #romance #love

Don't be self-conscious, if I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it.


Stephenie Meyer


#edward-cullen #obsession #dreams

Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEING HAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even people BEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging, sharing with other people


Erich Fromm


#possession #experience






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