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Possession
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I didn’t realize that in his wish to transform me was the proof that he didn’t like me as I was, he wanted me to be different, or, rather, he didn’t want just a woman, he wanted the woman he imagined he himself would be if he were a woman. For Franco, I said, I was an opportunity for him to expand into the feminine, to take possession of it: I constituted the proof of his omnipotence, the demonstration that he knew now to be not only a man in the right way, but also a woman.
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― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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― The Letters of the Younger Pliny
― The Letters of the Younger Pliny
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