“Luminous, gemlike, ghostlike, deathlike,” — Alfred Tennyson, from Maud: Part I, 1855.
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"Of course," she thought, "if you live in a place like this, you are bound to invent ghosts."
– Marjorie Bowen, from “The Crown Derby Plate,” Kecksies and Other Twilight Tales (Arkham House, 1976)
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Roy DeCarava.
Woman seated at window.
Harlem, New York City, 1953.
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Once a month I wake in the night, slippery with terror. I'm afraid, not because there's someone in the room, in the dark, in the bed, but because there isn't. I'm afraid of the emptiness, which lies beside me like a corpse.
Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips
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“Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.”
— Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
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Haus-Rucker-Co., Piece of Nature, 1977
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decaying all by yourself sweetheart?
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