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• If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Essence, Boredom, Would Be

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.22, Full Moon Publications

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• But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build. Twice I have so simply declared myself, have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy, have taken on his craft, his magic.

  Anne Sexton

  Suicide, Taken, Magic

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Men, Soul, Despair

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2012). “The Beautiful and Damned”, p.259, Courier Corporation

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• Why, oh why, had Jace picked a fight with a pack of wolves? What had possessed him? Then again, it was Jace. He'd pick a fight with a Mack truck if the urge took him. -Clary, pg.40-

  Cassandra Clare

  Fighting, Mack, Truck

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• Irony, perfect definition: that for which I want to possess it, I would no longer want once I possessed it.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Perfect, Definitions, Want

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.603, Dell

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• I tried to keep myself away from him by using con words like "fidelity" and "adultery", by telling myself that he would interfere with my work, that I had him I'd be too happy to write. I tried to tell myself I was hurting Bennett, hurting myself, making a spectacle of myself. I was. But nothing helped. I was possessed. The minute he walked into a room and smiled at me, I was a goner.

  Erica Jong

  Hurt, Writing, Rooms

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• I have wanted women whose very shoes are worth all I have ever possessed.

  John Fante

  Shoes, Wanted

  John Fante (2002). “Ask The Dust”, p.14, Canongate Books

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• Yet I think the demon's target is not the possessed; it is us . . . the observers . . . every person in this house. And I think---I think the point is to make us despair; to reject our own humanity, Damien: to see ourselves as ultimately bestial; as ultimately vile and putrescent; without dignity; ugly; unworthy.

  William Peter Blatty

  Thinking, House, Humanity

  William Peter Blatty (2015). “If There Were Demons Then Perhaps There Were Angels: William Peter Blatty’s Own Story of the Exorcist”, p.10, Macmillan

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• I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I would be with the people. I know this, I see it printed in the night sky that I, eclectic dissembler of doctrine and psychoanalyst of dogma, howling like one possessed, will assault the barricades or the trenches , will take my bloodstained weapon, and consumed with fury, slaughter any enemy who falls into my hands.

  Che Guevara

  Fall, Night, Hands

  Che Guevara, Ernesto Guevara (2009). “Che: The Diaries of Ernesto Che Guevara”, p.17, Ocean Press

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• Of all that I have possessed in my life, my memories are the only things remaining to me. Indeed, I believe that memories are the only real treasure any human can hope to hold always.

  Gary Jennings

  Memories, Real, Believe

  Gary Jennings (2016). “Aztec”, p.533, Macmillan

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• Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Pain, Memories, Sometimes

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Men, Goes On

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• One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Travel, Phrases

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.407, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct of death. To him it stood as the greatest of hurts. It was the very essence of the unknown; it was the sum of the terrors of the unknown, the one culminating and unthinkable catastrophe that could happen to him, about which he knew nothing and about which he feared everything.

  Jack London

  Hurt, Animal, Essence

  Jack London (1992). “The Call of the Wild and White Fang”, p.116, Wordsworth Editions

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• Nick‘s eyes widened as a total state of befuddled huh possessed him. Was he in the Twilight Zone?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Twilight, Eye, States

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• The rapt pupil will be forgiven for assuming the Tsar of Death to be wicked and the Tsar of Life to be virtuous. Let the truth be told: There is no virtue anywhere. Life is sly and unscrupulous, a blackguard, wolfish, severe. In service to itself, it will commit any offense. So, too, is Death possessed of infinite strategies and a gaunt nature- but also mercy, also grace and tenderness. In his own country, Death can be kind.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Country, Grace, Wicked

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.79, Macmillan

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• He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin.

  Steig Larsson

  Desire, Together, Connections

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• The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Power, Men, Metaphor

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• There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn't retrieve them when they were gone. The very act of caring made them impossible to regain.

  Ann Brashares

  Caring, Quality, Gone

  Ann Brashares (2005). “Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood”, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Ella was vapid and worthless at least nine-tenths of the time, but when she got really mad, her face became sharp and purposeful. Almost vicious. Like if Barbie were suddenly possessed by Atilla the Hun.

  Francine Pascal

  Mad, Barbie, Vapid

  Francine Pascal (2012). “Fearless: Fearless; Sam; Run”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Men, Alive

  Charles Dickens (2012). “A Christmas Carol”, p.99, Courier Corporation

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• a man possessed with peace is always smiling

  Milan Kundera

  Men, Always Smile

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• True emptiness is not empty, but contains all things. The mysterious and pregnant void creates and reflects all possibilities. From it arises our individuality, which can be discovered and developed, although never possessed or fixed.

  Jack Kornfield

  Individuality, Void, Emptiness

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• The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Soul, Body, Flight

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.35, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

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• I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always. One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy.

  Yann Martel

  Clever, Self, Law

  Yann Martel (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.170, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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