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Portrait from The Life of Samuel Johnson.

“It was hard to make him out in the poorly reproduced photocopy.” —Robert Harris, The Ghost

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Portrait from The Life of Thomas Jefferson.

“His amorphous face full of amorphous thought.” —Austin McGiffert Wright

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Portrait from Samuel Daniel.

“His pale face visible as only a white smudge.” —Peter Straub, Ghost Story

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Portrait from Memoir of Josiah White.

“He felt himself transparent, insignificant, a shade of his former self.” —Dorothy West

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Portrait from The Autobiography of Arthur Young.

"Although aspects of the ghost image can be reproduced through classical approaches, several features of the effect are purely quantum mechanical.” —Mark E. Brezinski, Optical Coherence Tomography

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Portrait from Biography of Frances Slocum.

“The shadow sat down, too.” —“The Naughty Shadow,” a Russian fable

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Portrait from Memoir of Roger Brooke Taney.

“Reality is accompanied by its spectral shadows only insofar as it is already in itself transcendentally constituted through the subject.” —Slavoj Žižek

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Portrait from The Life of Rutherford Birchard Hayes.

“You can almost hear the ghost of Rutherford B. Hayes.” —Adam Horowitz

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Portrait from Memoir of the Rev. C. H. O. Cote.

“A ghostly shadow in ghostly light.” —Eugene Field

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Portrait from Memoir of the Rev. Elias Cornelius.

“A nearly imperceptible shade separates the possible from the impossible.” —Supreme Court of Louisiana

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Portrait from The Life of Cervantes.

“Cervantes ghost-wrote a number of poems relating to the book of Don Quixote.” —Dale B. J. Randall, Cervantes in Seventeenth-Century England

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Portrait from Memoir of Nicholas Hill.

“Like a black shadow in the uncertain light.” —Isabella Valancy Crawford

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Portrait from Biography of Rev. Ezra Keller.

"It is a ghostly portrait of a man, but a curiously effective one.” —Robert Payne, The Life and Death of Lenin

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Portrait from Memoir of the Duchess of Orleans.

“The odd, thickened light around her face faded with it.” —David Weber, Hell’s Gate

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Portrait from Autobiography and Correspondence of Sir Simonds D’Ewes.

“A rule of thumb is that the more opaque the ghost, the more able it is to ‘pass as alive.’” —Tom Ruffles, Ghost Images: Cinema of the Afterlife

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Portrait from Memoir of William Francis Bartlet.

“That’s when she noticed the first ghost. It was a faint bluish haze, like cigarette smoke.” —Julia Cameron, Mozart’s Ghost

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Portrait from Memoir of James Brainerd Taylor.

“It was a pale, shadowy face, indeed; and it faded quite away from earth.” —Peterson’s Magazine

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Portrait from Mary Stuart.

“We feel that this is the land of shades, and the ghost of history.” —W. Macneile Dixon

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Portrait from Arthur Upson.

“A mere ghost of himself, a faint grey-blue shadow.” —W. R. Grove

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Portrait from Memoir of the life of Jeremiah Evarts.

“Shrouded in dense, spectral fog.” —Sharon Kay Penman, Falls the Shadow