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“But we have no [Marian] apparitions cautioning the Church against, say, accepting the delusion of an Earth-centered Universe, or warning it of complicity with Nazi Germany — two matters of considerable moral as well as historical import....Not a single saint criticized the practice of torturing and burning “witches” and heretics. Why not? Were they unaware of what was going on? Could they not grasp its evil? And why is [the Virgin] Mary always admonishing the poor peasant to inform the authorities? Why doesn’t she admonish the authorities herself? Or the King? Or the Pope?”
Carl Sagan“Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden in its darkness, stories that nobody wants to admit they believe but which nevertheless survive in the memory of generations as the only chronicle of the past. It is as if the people who inhabit the streets, inspired by some mysterious wisdom, relalise that the true history of Calcutta has always been written in the invisible tales of its spirits and unspoken curses.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Midnight Palace“My father is an apparition, and my mother is semiconscious.”
Jessica Warman, Breathless“A night of full moon is favourable to tales of apparitions.”
Rómulo Gallegos, Doña Bárbara“...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.”
Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles“Anything could happen in the company of a woman whose usual status is ‘apparition’.”
Margot McCuaig, The Birds That Never Flew“She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight A lovely Apparition sent To be a moment's ornament.”
William Wordsworth“On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!”
Mehmet Murat ildan“Thus in a single phrase I can define the great illusion concerning 'love' in this world. It is the effort to join reality with the apparition.”
Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion“Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages”
Isabel Allende, My Invented Country : A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile