What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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1938-11-13Cesare Pavese
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Propaganda is not French, it is not civilized to want other people to believe what you believe because the essence of being civilised is to possess yourself as you are, and if you possess yourself as you are you of course cannot possess any one else, it is not your business.
Gertrude Stein
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse — as a luxury befitting a young man.
Stendhal
The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
We are always anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain) Clemens
We are always anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
Mark Twain
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