A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.
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Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
quote by Malcolm Cowley
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I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn't understand because only she possesses it.
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Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
quote by Simone Weil
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It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.
quote by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.
quote by Johannes Tauler
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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
quote by Madame de Stael
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A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.
quote by Robert Oxton Bolt
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A man possesses beauty in his quality and a woman possesses quality in her beauty.
Possessiveness
Every inch of yours
is mine.
Every breath of yours
is mine.
Every space of yours
is mine.
Every move of yours
is mine.
I'm possessiveness
personified!
I need you, own you,
have you, possess you.
Every moment of your life,
all your time...is all mine!
Possessiveness
possesses me...
They say: detachment
is the best policy.
So here I go...
Let me renounce the world
to remain attached to thee!
Possessiveness owns me.
They say: remain aloof
to get detached. Separate
and go your own ways.
What they don't know is
Attachment has nothing
to do with proximity....
Even if you are far across
the seven continents
and the seven seas...
You'll never be able to
disown me!
I'm attached to you.
So are you, to me...
We are partners in possessiveness!
Every smell of yours
I possess
as if like a fragrance
I emanate from thee...
Every sight of yours
I possess, as if
in your eyes, you only
see me...
Possessiveness
possesses us...
like partners in fantasy.
This divine attraction
is the culmination of
love's orgasmic ecstasy!
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He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
quote by Benjamin Franklin
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He does not possess wealth it possesses him.
quote by Benjamin Franklin
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I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.
quote by Joyce Maynard
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He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
quote by Leonardo da Vinci
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Talk not of genius baffled, Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1860)
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It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
quote by Margaret Fuller
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A man is poor not because he scorns possessions, but because he possesses nothing.
Nothing in the world will take away persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
quote by Calvin Coolidge
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
quote by Andrew Carnegie
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The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.
quote by Edith Sodergran
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