"Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy; he could go there with his eyes shut."
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"It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. "As if," said Eugene, "as if the churchyard ghosts were rising.""
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"The torrent of the reaching shade Broke shadow into all its parts, What then had been of shadow made Found exigence in fits and starts."
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"Before me floats an image, man or shade, / Shade more than man, more image than a shade."
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"A strange thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought Upon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade, Should find no burden but itself and yet should be worn out. It could not bear that burden and therefore it went mad."
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"The gloomy shade of death."
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"The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers."
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"The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to the last grain. He is as tough as catgut and as evanescent as a butterfly's bloom."
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"and when they pulled her from the wreck, you know, she still had on her shades"
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"Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,-- Depart,--be off,--excede,--evade,--erump!"
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"Great trees are good for nothing but shade."
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"When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color."
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"What would you pack for Armageddon? Sunscreen and shades? Flame-proof underwear? Maybe a travel guide to the Underworld?"
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"Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?"
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"You might see some of the movies that I'm in where there are shades of drama or whatever, but for the most part, I don't get offered serious roles."
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