Jim Morrison
Musician, Poet
"Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence."
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Infatuation
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Teresa Lo
Artist
"You never knew this, but I was in love. Okay, infatuated, but it felt like love at the time."
Sylvia Plath
Poet, Novelist
"I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy."
George Eliot
Novelist, Poet, Journalist
"Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness."
John Donne
Poet, Cleric
"Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me."
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"You have now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and merciless devaluation of self."
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"Infatuation was a good thing. It gave spice to life, and added to its enjoyment... But it was different from love. Love was worth everything, and couldn't be exchanged for anything."
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"I was grateful for cereal --- the only food that my tummy, riddled by pangs of infatuation, could handle."
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"He stares at me so darkly, so hungily that I can only nod. Agree. Of course, I feel it. "I do", I admit."
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"To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj."
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"I thought you hung the moon."
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"The majority of romantic comedy movies have nothing to do with love, but everything to do with infatuation."
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