237 Quotes About Ownership





  • Author Trevor Dodge
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    You will learn about the twinned natures of fate and faith, at times spun together in threads fine as cotton candy, that taste just as sweet and evaporate just as quick. It is not right to say that you will have her, because you cannot truly possess another person. Nor should you even want such a thing.

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  • Author Gregor Collins
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    Living in any other time than the present and living on anyone else's terms but your own is a categorical waste of a human life.

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  • Author Seneca
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    Even for studies, where expenditure is most honorable, it is justifiable only so long as it is kept within bounds. What is the use of having countless books and libraries, whose titles their owners can scarcely read through in a whole lifetime? The learner is, not instructed, but burdened by the mass of them, and it is much better to surrender yourself to a few authors than to wander through many.

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  • Author Tove Jansson
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    It's finished. There isn't a stamp, or an error that I haven't collected. Not one. What shall I do now?""I think I'm beginning to understand," said Moomintroll slowly. "You aren't a collector anymore, you're only an owner, and that isn't nearly so much fun.

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