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)
“We would not let ourselves be burned at the stake for our opinions: we are not that certain of them. But perhaps we would do so in order to be allowed to possess and to change them.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
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