"I have always been a great dreamer; in dreams I am more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of health and energy."
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"For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?"
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"Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow."
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"Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines."
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"Word is a shadow of a deed."
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"Shadow-making happens in families and makes us who we are. It leads to shadow-work, which makes us who we can become."
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"The devil considers all misplaced trust as devil worship, for he hides himself in its shadows."
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"Like all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts, the theater is the only one left whose shadows have shattered their limitations."
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"To think of shadows is a serious thing."
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"We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!"
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"Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light."
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"Coming events cast their shadows before."
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"I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message."
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"Let the word and the legend go before you. Let the world go before you. Let your shadow grow. Let it grow hair on its face. Let it become dark. Given time, words may even enchant an enchanter."
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"May the shadow of the Almighty ever rest on all those you love."
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"And if you are a rose, I am rose-shadow."
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"There is only one way, really, to get into a state of living, and that's live There is no substitute for an all-out, over-the-ramparts, howling charge against life. That's living. Living does not consist of sitting in a temple in the shadows and getting rheumatism from the cold stones. Living is hot, it's fast, it's often brutal It has a terrific gamut of emotional reactions. If you are really willing to live, you first have to be willing to do anything that consists of living. Weird. But it's one of those awfully true things that you wonder why one has to say it. And yet it has to be said."
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"Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned and forgotten, and the same mystery that brought them takes them away, transforming their secret into oblivion. Such is the law by which things that can't be explained must be forgotten. The visible world goes on as usual in the broad daylight. Otherness watches us from the shadows."
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"Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train."
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"Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet."
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