Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Ta cała psychiatria to nic innego, jak tylko swoisty mikrokosmos komunizmu [...]. Lepiej by zostawili ludziom ich kłopoty osobiste. Nasuwa się bowiem pytanie, czy kłopoty nie są jedyną rzeczą na świecie, którą ludzie mogą mieć na własność?

Vladimir Nabokov

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Oh no." I said panic rising in my chest. "No, no, no, Somebody get a can opener. I've got a god in my head!!

Rick Riordan

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Pedro of Portugal's rapt and bizarre declaration of love, in 1356, for the embalmed corpse of his murdered wife, Inez de Castro, who swayed beside him on his travels, leather-brown and skeletal, crowned with lace and gold circlet, hung about with chains of diamonds and pearls, her bone-fingers fantastically ringed.

A.S. Byatt

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Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.

Stephen R. Covey

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When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.

Don Juan

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One man carries salvation and damnation from the desert.

Matthew Sawyer

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When I hear that "Possession is the grave of love," I remember that a religion may begin with the resurrection.

F.H. Bradley

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Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.

Chuck Barris

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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.

Irvin D. Yalom

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