Most of the confidences were unsought — frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon; for the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?'

Preoccupation with sex is the basis of all mental activity.

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.

Don't open your mouth, and your physiognomy demonstrates a preoccupation.

Sami had a strange preoccupation.