#possessed

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions. ↗

— Max Lerner

#civilization #consumers #get #our #ourselves

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. ↗

— George Meredith

#felicity #object #obligation #possessed #possession

Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist. ↗

— Alfred Sisley

#beholder #craft #highest #his #loveliness

Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed. ↗

— Mary Gordon

#great #vocation #waiting

The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly. ↗

— Karl Radek

#against #because #bourgeois #determine #does

If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#the-dispossessed #science

Not that he regretted having killed the guy in Stockton. The one who'd been ready to shoot him over the five crumpled dollar bills in his jeans pocket. He was quite happy to have sent that particular home boy to hell. ↗

— L.J. Smith

#gabriel #lj-smith #the-possessed #vision

No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed. ↗

— William Cowper

#enthusiast #half #him #like #possessed

Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. It was strange to see Takver take a leaf into her hand, or even a rock. She became an extension of it, it of her. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#fantasy #nature #science-fiction #the-dispossessed #death

If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information. ↗

— Dee Hock

#capacity #clearly #first #form #go