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"Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness."
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"I like that people can just look at you and know that you are taken, that you are mine. He closed his eyes and laughed. "And yes, I know that sentiment is at the top of the Women's Liberation Movement's list of things not to say to a modern woman."
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"You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own."
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"When you feel terribly angry, you're possessed by anger ghost."
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"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."
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"Treasure your relationships, not your possessions."
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"Myrnin said softly. "And how is it that you do not understand that HERE, in THIS place, this girl belongs to me, not to you?"
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"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."
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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."
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"He's my cat! He's not God's cat! Let God have his own cat! Let God have all the damn old cats He wants, and kill them all! Church is mine!"
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"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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"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance."
Beauty
"To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance."
Ignorance
"It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately."
Sacrifice
"An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome."
Nature
"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil."
Peace
"Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books."
Life
"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."
People
"Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make."
Help
"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
People
"Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs."
Education
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