Vladimir Nabokov
Novelist
"For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me."
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Phantoms
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Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, often not. Life is a dream surely."
Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality."
Emma Goldman
Anarchist, Political Activist, Writer
"Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poet, Educator
"Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live."
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"As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall."
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"The writer must hew the phantom rock."
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"For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist."
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"How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty."
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"Even when the Phantom's leased, them hoes wanna get in."
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"Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead."
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"No matter whether "I" feels victorious or defeated, elated or discouraged, these are mere phantoms compared to consciousness itself."
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"You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all; you are a mere dream"
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"The Phantom, as well as being backed up by that music, it just so was a role that I identified with so powerfully. From the first second that I walked on to perform."
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"We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half."
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"Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by? ---"On death"
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"Now we must remark, that there are two parts in the Commandment-the first forbids the erection of a graven image, or any likeness; the second prohibits the transferring of the worship which God claims for Himself alone, to any of these phantoms or delusive shows."
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