"Sometimes the shadow stays next to the Light. Sometimes it disappears into the Light"
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"The shadow of fear and uncertainty lies over most of us; for us the future seems far from being as clear and open as we believed it would be."
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"The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors."
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"But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows."
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"I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real."
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"What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything."
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"Understand that the body is merely the foam of a wave, the shadow of a shadow."
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"Our good and bad deeds follow us almost like a shadow."
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"Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow."
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"I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God."
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"Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow."
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"Shadows which you see with difficulty, and whose boundaries you cannot define... these you should not represent as finished or sharply defined, for the result would be that your work would seem wooden."
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"Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own."
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"The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary, And I am near to fall, infirm and weary."
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"In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard."
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"You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun."
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"And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?"
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"What happens tomorrow is but the shadow of thoughts we held today."
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"The smallest hair throws its shadow. [Ger., Das kleinste Harr wirft seinen Schatten.]"
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"Terrorism, like viruses, is everywhere. There is a global perfusion of terrorism, which accompanies any system of domination as though it were its shadow, ready to activate itself anywhere, like a double agent."
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