#possessed

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be. ↗

— James Broughton

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Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

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