"In truth, everything and everyone is a shadow of the Beloved."
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"A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows."
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"One has personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression; but as the years go by it seems now often forgotten that to be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than to be involved in 1939 and the following years. By 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead."
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"What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul."
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"Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years."
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"If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight."
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"Jealousy, and local policy mix too much in all our public councils for the good government of the Union. In a words, the confederation appears to me to be little more than a shadow without the substance . . . ."
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"Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun."
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"Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality."
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"For human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born."
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"Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light."
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"Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes."
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"What is peculiar to modern societies is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to speaking of it ad infinitum, while exploiting it as the secret."
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"Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man."
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"The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong."
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"Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain."
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"The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us."
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"Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors."
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"His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death."
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"To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future."
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