In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of…

T. S. Eliot
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In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession. ✨ T. S. Eliot (2014). Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession. ✨ T. S. Eliot (2014). Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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