#possess

Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another. ↗

— Geoffrey Beene

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When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#common #everyday #indifferent #likely #only

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession. ↗

— Andre Breton

#booty #desire #industry #less #nothing

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#creative #impulses #man #possessive #war

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#book #possession #reading #substitute

If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

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The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#does #majority #matter #mend #nor

We all possess the need to dream. ↗

— David Copperfield

#need #possess

Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#part #possess #something #take #witness

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. ↗

— Salvador Dali

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