Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us."
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Apparitions
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Pablo Picasso
Painter, Sculptor
"I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me."
Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"I can call spirits from the vasty deep."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man."
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"Glendower: I can call the spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come, when you do call for them?"
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"The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God."
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"The operation of consciousness has created the 'apparition' called 'me'."
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