Tupac Shakur
Rapper, Actor, Activist
"Thug Life hit me like the Holy ghost."
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Ghost
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Alan Watts
Philosopher, Writer
"If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear, ghosts, pains, transience, dissolution, and all. And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise; you don't die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are."
Edgar Allan Poe
Poet, Writer
"And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor."
David Bowie
Musician, Actor
"On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"So many horrid Ghosts."
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"The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost."
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"Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day."
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"Ego is a ghost who is terrified of dying"
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"The true sin against the Holy Ghost is ingratitude."
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"The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited."
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"Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst."
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"Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree."
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"It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices."
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"It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum."
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"O lost, And by the wind grieved, Ghost, Come back again."
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"The Holy Ghost has called me by the gospel and illuminated me with his gifts and sanctified and preserved me in the true faith."
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"There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury."
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"That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence."
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"Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost."
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"He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts."
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"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."
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"This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and yet unable to see it."
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"That's how we find our way outward and onward. By holding onto beauty hardest. By cradling it like the cure that it is. By making it realer than anything ever was. The rest is just monsters and ghosts."
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"I look for ghosts; but none will force Their way to me. 'Tis falsely said That there was ever intercourse Between the living and the dead."
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"I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs."
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