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Love, thieves, and fear, make ghosts. - German Proverb

Love, thieves, and fear, make ghosts. – German Proverb

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As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow. – Thomas Ingoldsby, “The Spectre of Tappington,” 1837

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Nature is a Haunted House – but Art – a House that tries to be haunted. – Emily Dickinson, 1876

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An idea, like a ghost (according to the common notion of ghosts), must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. – Attributed to Dickens in Many Thoughts of Many Minds by Henry Southgate, 1862

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Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts. – Brian Aldiss

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