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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.

But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.

At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being.

Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.