A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life. (Eric Hoffer)

A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life.

Eric Hoffer

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