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Obsession
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“... if people are highly successful in their professions they lose their senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. They lose their sense of proportion — the relations between one thing and another. Humanity goes.”
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“... nobody listened to a man who had spent his life on one idea.”
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“I was obsessed, and like most obsessed people, I was the last one to know it. ”
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“... perhaps the way with any obsession is to ignore it simply. Not to fight it, since it draws strength from any contact with us, whether hostile or friendly ...”