"The addictive experience is the totality of effect produced by an involvement; it stems from pharmacological and physiological sources, but takes its ultimate form from cultural and individual constructions of experience."

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Source : Stanton Peele (1985). “The Meaning of Addiction: Compulsive Experience and Its Interpretation”, Free Press

Stanton Peele

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“I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.”
“If he speaks again without me knowing who he is, I will throw him out of the window. And I won't open it first.”
“I work and work and if I have a surplus I book a holiday.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Love: You're not meant to wait for it. You're not meant to search for it. You're meant to generate it.”
“I can think of no better reason to vote against Obama than the prospect of an administration where any criticism of the President is treated as racism.”
“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another. His nature - if that word can be used in reference to man, who has â€˜inventedâ€™ himself by saying â€˜noâ€™ to nature - consists in his longing to realize himself in another. Man is nostalgia and a search for communion. Therefore, when he is aware of himself he is aware of his lack of another, that is, of his solitude.”

Source : The Labyrinth of Solitude ch. 9 (1950) (translation by Lysander Kemp)
“I was a pretty dark person to begin with. I have always been more drawn to darkness”
“I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.”

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