erotomaniac

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The story centres on Violetta, who lives with her grandmother, a Romanian expatriate, and whose mother Hanna decides to become a photographer and liberate herself from her partner, a well-known painter and erotomaniac.

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  • Artaud in " Van Gogh the Man Suicided by Society" uses the word "erotomaniac" to capture what he saw in the psychiatrist that were treating him.
  • The story centres on Violetta, who lives with her grandmother, a Romanian expatriate, and whose mother Hanna decides to become a photographer and liberate herself from her partner, a well-known painter and erotomaniac. —  Cineuropa
  • Thus Nero has become a black proverb, not merely because he was an oppressor, but because he was also an aesthete— that is, an erotomaniac. —  A Miscellany of Men
  • They vie with the loathsome practices of the Kaffirs and the most debauched Roman emperors, while some of them are so vile that it seems as if they could have been suggested only by the diseased brain of an erotomaniac. —  Primitive Love and Love-Stories
  • a poor girl's virtue and happiness, that led him to represent his hero, Werther, as using every possible effort in court to secure the pardon of that erotomaniac who had first attempted rape and then finished up by assassinating his rival. —  Primitive Love and Love-Stories
 

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