I have little left in myself. I must have you. The world may laugh, may call me absurd, selfish, but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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Are you familiar with the feeling of becoming a hostage to your own obsessions?
Sometimes these obsessive ideas, in spite of turning into destructive ones over time, are so ingrained in us that we cannot simply strive away from them.
Over and over again we decide to abandon these thoughts, but each time, as if under the influence of a more powerful force, we return to them, as if poking a long-dead creature and checking whether it is definitely...