"When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence."
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"When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf - 'cause I'd alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf."
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"He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around."
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"Some possessions are like old friends, and you never want to abandon an old friend."
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"The black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions."
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"We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary."
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"Forgiveness is the finding again of a lost possession."
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"Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet."
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