"A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow."
"Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward."
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Source: Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.138, New Directions Publishing
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