Famous quotes containing the word possess:
“To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.”
—Simone Weil (19091943)
“Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has cast up in my time or is like tothis art by which even the poor can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustnt it be acting favourably on the morality of the country?”
—Jane Welsh Carlyle (18011866)
“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)
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