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"Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness."
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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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"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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"Always happens with men. They promise friendship. They promise to treat you as an equal. In the end, all they want is to possess you."
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"Treasure your relationships, not your possessions."
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"Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness."
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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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"In this worldly life, one is possessed by the three ghosts of the mind, speech and the body."
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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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"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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"The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education."
Education
"Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light."
Beauty
"The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him."
Man
"Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty."
Strength
"Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities."
Mind
"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."
Experience
"Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes."
Time
"All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time."
Time
"All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy."
Emotional
"All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent."
Art
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