"Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow."
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"To contemplate is to look at shadows."
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"It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape."
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"When you're 25 or 30, you know, you can't wear lime-green eye shadow anymore."
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"The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine."
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"We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him."
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"All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man."
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"In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows."
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"There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure."
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"Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer."
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"It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow."
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"Far away, in the meadow, shadows flickered in the Mirror's Maze, as if parts of someone's life, yet unborn, were trapped there, waiting to be lived."
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"Godhead here in hiding, whom I adore Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more, See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a heart Lost, all lost in wonder at the God thou art"
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"Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?"
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"You didnt grow up in the shadow of John Steinbeck. He put you on his shoulders and gave you all the light you wanted."
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"I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow."
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"and the rain went rollin down the windowpanes, and the shadows wiggled n' squiggled on her check and forehead like black veins."
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"Its when the sun shines the brightest that our shadows appear the biggest"
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"I couldn't see his face, because the light came in from behind him and he was in shadow, and he said, "I am Picasso." And I said, "Well, so what?"
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"Between two fantasy alternatives, that Holbein the Younger had lived long enough to have painted Shakespeare or that a prototype of the camera had been invented early enough to have photographed him, most Bardolators would choose the photograph. This is not just because it would presumably show what Shakespeare really looked like, for even if the photograph were faded, barely legible, a brownish shadow, we would probably still prefer it to another glorious Holbein. Having a photograph of Shakespeare would be like having a nail from the True Cross."
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