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• I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with gore, and to allow his lips to touch the flesh of a murdered being: who spread his table with the mangled forms of dead bodies, and claimed as daily food and dainty dishes what but now were beings endowed with movement, perception and with voice. …but for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that portion of life and time it had been born in to the world to enjoy.

  Plutarch

  Men, Light, Voice

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• To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.

  Susan Sontag

  Gun, People, Cameras

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.16, Macmillan

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• All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean shadows and depths.

  Kiran Desai

  Ocean, Moving, Color

  Kiran Desai (2007). “The Inheritance of Loss”, p.1, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

  Anais Nin

  Happiness, Knowledge, Fever

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• If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation. In a way I was glad that my wife had struck out at me again – I had forgotten her pain for too long, and this was the only kind of recompense I could give her. Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.

  Graham Greene

  Hurt, Pain, Philosophy

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Collected Edition: The quiet American”

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• Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Aikido, Martial Arts

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

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• The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.

  James Thurber

  Humor, Artist, Depth

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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• What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?

  Billy Sunday

  World, Given

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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  When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

  Casey Stengel

  Motivational, Birthday, Baseball

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• There is perhaps not an enlightened Christian in America who, notwithstanding he may believe that, at the time of Jesus, men were possessed of devils, believes that they ever have been in any other instance, either before or since.

  Lysander Spooner

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The collected works of Lysander Spooner”

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• Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.

  Alfred Sisley

  Artist, Crafts, Should

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• Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, People, Talent

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• The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Humor, Two, Quality

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1933, Volume 2”, p.491, Best Books on

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• He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Blessed, Littles, Poverty

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.57, e-artnow

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• When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Long, Miracle

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.30, Penguin

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• Looking back, it was the thing in his life that shamed him the most: the times he was purposefully, calculatingly mean to Alice. It was those moments, and there had been many of them, that indicated to him that he was not a good person. He got mad at her for many things, but it was always really for the same thing: that she possessed his love and he couldn't seem to get it back. She didn't deserve it, which was to say she deserved better

  Ann Brashares

  Mean, Mad, His Love

  Ann Brashares (2008). “The Last Summer (of You and Me)”, p.43, Penguin

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• Love, I would later conclude, was all things to all people. Love was the breaking and healing of hearts. Love was misunderstood, love was faith, love was the promise of now that became hope for the future. Love was a rhythm, a resonance, a reverberation. Love was awkward and foolish, it was aggressive and simple and possessed of so many indefinable qualities it could never be conveyed in language. Love was being. The same gravity that relentlessly pulled at me was defied as I rose into something that became everything.

  R.J. Ellory

  Healing, Heart, Simple

  R. J. Ellory (2010). “A Quiet Belief in Angels: A Novel”, p.221, The Overlook Press

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• if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Demon, Rebellion, Behavior

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.159, Penguin

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• Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and naivete, which means the dominance of temperament in the manner, is a gift from God, possessed by very few.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Mean, Doubt, Age

  Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.102, CUP Archive

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• Man is a spiritual being, a soul, and at some period of his life everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite. . . . There is something within him which urges him to rise above himself, to control his environment, to master the body and all things physical and live in a higher and more beautiful world.

  David O. McKay

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Men

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• [Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer.... And why do you pray, Moishe?' I asked him. I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions.

  Elie Wiesel

  Real, Answers, Praying

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• Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greatness, Men, Long

  "Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• Words were all he knew; they possessed and overwhelmed him, as if they were a thousand white cats with whom he shared a one-room apartment.

  Mark Helprin

  Cat, White, Rooms

  Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books

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• At that time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before.

  Graham Chapman

  Father, Night, Hammers

  Graham Chapman (2001). “Monty Python's the life of Brian (of Nazareth)”, Methuen Pub Ltd

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• I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity.

  Barack Obama

  Appreciation, Book, Cutting

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.9, Canongate Books

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