Quotes with haunting

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  • Charles Lamb A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Karl Marx A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Robert Browning Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Mark Twain Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Joseph Conrad There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Fawn M. Brodie There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable.
    Fawn M. Brodie
    American historian and biographer (1915 - 1981)
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  • Gail Sheehy We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one they feel will impinge upon them the least.
    Gail Sheehy
    American author, journalist, and lecturer (1936 - 2020)
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