Possession

Famous quotes containing the word possession:

“For a creative writer possession of the “truth” is less important than emotional sincerity.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)

“Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through her; separateness is abolished, there is no struggle, no victory, no defeat; in exact reciprocity each is at once subject and object, sovereign and slave; duality become mutuality.”
—Simone De Beauvoir (1908–1986)

“We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)