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Letter "G" » ghosts
«We all have ghosts, remorse, dreams, things we love and hate. One day something in life - a word, a phrase, something in a book, a beautiful woman - clicks, and part of that world takes on a special meaning. And you realize you have a story to tell.»
Author: Arturo Perez Reverte
(Journalist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
click, clicked, clicking, clicks, ghosts, ghost stories, love story, phrase, remorse
«Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines»
«The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.»
«The tender word forgotten, The letter you did not write, The flower you might have sent, dear, Are your haunting ghosts tonight»
Author: Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
| Keywords:
ghosts, Ghost in, haunting, letter, sent, tender, The Haunted, The Haunting, The Letter, tonight
«Like a moth to a flame we become helpless to the beautiful ghosts that true love sheds»
«Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.»
Author: W. Stanley Jevons
| About:
Value
| Keywords:
dense, denser, ghosts, impalpable, invincible, unthought-of, unthought
«The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.»
«The consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
commission, commissioned, Commissions, Commission on, crimes, ghosts, haunt, malefactor, malefactors, murdered
«Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion»
Author: Thomas Hobbes
(Philosopher)
| About:
Ignorance,
Opinions,
Religion
| Keywords:
casual, devotion, ghosts, natural causes
«Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
armed, bigotry, claw, clawing, cling, condemned, fateful, ghosts, grapple, grappled, grappling, perpetual, prejudice, shade, shades, superstition, tenaciously, The Throat, throat, tooth, unceasingly
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