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"Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?"
"I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul."
"I am almost equal to a shadow."
"For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds."
"After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave."
"A door jumps out from shadows, then jumps away. This is what I've come to find: the back door, unlatched. Tooled by insular wind, it slams and slams without meaning to and without meaning."
"Stars and shadows ain't good to see by."
"And so I am become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows"
"Vampires, werewolves, fallen angels and fairies lurk in the shadows, their intentions far from honorable."
"Writers end up writing stories-or rather, stories' shadows-and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough. Nothing the writer can do is ever enough"
"Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim."
"It was so hot today I saw a robin dipping his worm in Nestea.It was so hot today I saw a pigeon walking in the shadow of Orson Welles.It was so hot today that Burger King was singing, "if you want it your way, cook it yourself."
"I do not believe that ever any building was truly great, unless it had mighty masses, vigorous and deep, of shadow mingled with its surface."
"The light filtered throught the leaves and pine needles above as if through lace, the ground spotted in shadow."
"Like the way the sun is right now, with the long shadows, and that kind of bright, soft light you get when the sun isn't quite setting? That's the light that makes everything better, everything prettier, and today, everything just seemed to be in that light."
"It's difficult to get away from the shadow of a TV character."
"I don't deserve your love or your shine, but I want it because with you I can feel the sun. I don't want to go back to those shadows."
"There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy."
"He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it."
"There were so many fellows ranked over me I couldn't just whoop them all. I had to out-shadow them by talking."
