"Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides."
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"We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong."
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"One thing is certain, that when you die and are resurrected you belong to the earth and whatever is of the earth is yours inalienably. You become an anomaly of nature, a being without shadow; you will never die again but only pass away like the phenomena about you."
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"Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who directly or indirectly participate in revolution intend - conditioned by the myths of the old order - to make it their private revolution. The shadow of their former oppressor is still cast over them."
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"We have to look at the substance of something rather than the shadow."
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"We live in strange times. We also live in strange places, each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universe are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own."
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"There are no physical divisions in the subtle domain and therefore no barriers between heaven and hell, light and shadow."
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"The shadow disguises itself in our projections, when we react intensely to a trait in others that we fail to see in ourselves."
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"In the shadow of the atomic bomb it has become even more apparent that all men are, indeed, brothers."
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"Suddenly I'm not half the girl I used to be. There's a shadow hanging over me . . . From me to you out of my electric devil."
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"Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire."
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"The air brightened, the running shadow patches were now the obverse, and it seemed to him that the fact that the day was clearing was another cunning stroke on the part of the foe, the fresh battle toward which he was carrying ancient wounds."
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"... Nothing resembles reality less than the photograph. Nothing resembles substance less than its shadow. To convey the meaning of something substantial you have to use not a shadow but a sign, not the limitation but the image. The image is a new and different reality, and of course it does not convey an impression of some object, but the mind of the subject; and that is something else again."
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"For this I see, that we, all we that live, Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams."
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"A shadow cannot ignore the sun that all day creates and moves it."
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"You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky."
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"You musn’t be afraid of the dark.’ ‘I’m not,’ said Shadow. ‘I’m afraid of the people in the dark."
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"The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow."
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"I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows."
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"There are instances when we are like horses, we psychologists, and grow restless: we see our own shadow wavering up and down before us. A psychologist must look away from himself in order to see anything at all."
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