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Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.

Walter Benjamin
Intimate Relationships, Alive, Ownership
Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.