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"You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own."
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"I' means the Self and 'my' means what belongs to the self. All that is 'my' is acquisition [parigrah]. You should keep [only] whatever acquisition you are able to carry."
"In this worldly life, one is possessed by the three ghosts of the mind, speech and the body."
"When she reaches down to touch his shoulder-a gesture only a few species and a million or so years removed from lifting a leg and marking him as her territory with a stream of urine-enough bracelets and bangles to lay track across the Australian Outback slide down her arm and come to a jangling stop at her wrist."
"Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another."
"When you feel terribly angry, you're possessed by anger ghost."
"I didn't like anyone except me having their hands all over him. There had been possession in Wolf's touch, and Adam belonged to me."
"Too bad,Elizabeth. You're Stuck with me.Not for a few decades,not for centuries. You're tied to me forever. That boy and girl offspring you talked off? They'll come from me--or no one."
"Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones."
"Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity."
"We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties."
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"Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is around us, for it is everywhere."
"Having a large world of his own in his own head and heart, he tolerated confinement to a small, still corner of the real world very patiently."
"Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words."
"Unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me."
"I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much."
"The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed."
"Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objectsof affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing afaded graven image, shabby as a miniature scarecrow. It puzzles me nowto remember with what absurd sincerity I doated on this little toy, halffancying it alive and capable of sensation. I could not sleep unless it wasfolded in my night-gown; and when it lay there safe and warm, I wascomparatively happy, believing it to be happy likewise."
"You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world."
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