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Possession Quotes
"Treasure your relationships, not your possessions."
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"Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity."
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"Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones."
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"Well, they had a lot of the things they found in his possession. They had the map, you know, that marked the route of the parade. They had statements from the bus driver and the taxicab driver that hauled him somewhere."
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"When you feel terribly angry, you're possessed by anger ghost."
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"We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties."
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"He's my cat! He's not God's cat! Let God have his own cat! Let God have all the damn old cats He wants, and kill them all! Church is mine!"
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"Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another."
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"Myrnin said softly. "And how is it that you do not understand that HERE, in THIS place, this girl belongs to me, not to you?"
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"Always happens with men. They promise friendship. They promise to treat you as an equal. In the end, all they want is to possess you."
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"In this worldly life, one is possessed by the three ghosts of the mind, speech and the body."
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"I' means the Self and 'my' means what belongs to the self. All that is 'my' is acquisition [parigrah]. You should keep [only] whatever acquisition you are able to carry."
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"You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own."
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