"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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"Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts."
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"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts."
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"To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts."
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"Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost, he will do good."
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"By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me."
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"The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts."
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"In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it... She stood apart from mortal interests, yet close beside them, like a ghost that revisits the familiar fireside, and can no longer make itself seen or felt."
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"People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales."
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"Written kisses never arrive at their destination; the ghosts drink them up along the way."
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"Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos."
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"I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born."
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"You are certainly under the guidance of the Holy Ghost or you wouldn't have come where you now are."
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"Come in, -- come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before!"
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"I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts."
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"I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost."
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