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«Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.»
Author: Paul Klee (Artist) | About: Colors, Painting | Keywords: happy hour, painter, possesses, pursue
«Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.»
Author: Andre Gide | About: Possessions | Keywords: possesses, proved, unable
«But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master / something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. If the result be attractive, the World will praise you, who little deserve praise; if it be repulsive, the same World will blame you, who almost as little deserve blame.»
«Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death»
Author: Heinrich Heine (Poet, Writer) | About: Communism | Keywords: communism, elements, possesses
«Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.»
«Don't value a man for the Quality he is of, but for the Qualities he possesses.»
«Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.»
«Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.»
«A good mind possesses a kingdom»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: kingdom, possesses
«A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.»

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