Famous quotes containing the word possess:
“The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horseas a luxury befitting a young man.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (17831842)
“A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (18741936)
“To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.”
—Simone Weil (19091943)
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