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To muse for long unwearied hours with my attention riveted to some frivolous device upon the margin, or in the typography of a book -- to become absorbed for the better part of a summer's day in a quaint shadow falling aslant upon the tapestry, or upon the floor -- to lose myself for an entire night in watching the steady flame of a lamp, or the embers of a fire -- to dream away whole days over the perfume of a flower -- to repeat monotonously some common word, until the sound, by dint of frequent repetition, ceased to convey any idea whatever to the mind -- to lose all sense of motion or physical existence in a state of absolute bodily quiescence long and obstinately persevered in -- Such were a few of the most common and least pernicious vagaries induced by a condition of the mental faculties, not, indeed, altogether unparalleled, but certainly bidding defiance to any thing like analysis or explanation.
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monomania
obsession
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All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea. The more one limits oneself, the closer one is to the infinite; these people, as unworldly as they seem, burrow like termites into their own particular material to construct, in miniature, a strange and utterly individual image of the world.
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infinite
monomania
stefan-zweig
sublime
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Stefan Zweig |