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#possession

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Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEING HAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even people BEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging, sharing with other people


Erich Fromm


#possession #experience

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.


Mort Sahl


#deserve #everything #feel #liberals #possessions

Jealousy is something I cultivate whenever I enter a relationship. It shows proper self-possession.


Bauvard


#humor #jealousy #possession #funny

The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. … they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality.


Thomas Mann


#possessions #readers #reading #things #life

Murder is not about lust and it's not about violence. It's about possession. When you feel the last breath of life coming out of the woman, you look into her eyes. At the point, it's being God.


Ted Bundy


#possession #ted-bundy #life

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.


Laura Lippman


#life #need #possessions #regret #wanting

What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown, Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?


William Shakespeare


#fleeting-possession #gain #greed #dreams

Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.


Irvin D. Yalom


#jealousy #marriage #possession #jealousy

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” - Lord Henry Wotton.


Oscar Wilde


#capitalism #material #money #possessions #priorities

I want to be your last thought at night, and your first taste at dawn.


Nenia Campbell


#horror-romance #owning #possession #relationship #sex






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