"The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light."
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"What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow."
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"We think not in words but in shadows of words."
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"Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows."
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"Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other."
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"You came to my life with what you were bringing, made of light and bread and shadow I expected you, and Like this I need you, Like this I love you, and to those who want to hear tomorrow that which I will not tell them, let them read it here, and let them back off today because it is early for these arguments."
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"I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days."
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"To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist."
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"God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too."
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"There is strong shadow where there is much light."
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"The shadows are as important as the light."
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"In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow."
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"The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone."
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"I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones."
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"When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun. There is always a bright side - even if only that it is not worse...and it can always be worse"
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"Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone."
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"The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way."
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"A human being is only breath and shadow."
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"I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me."
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"Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable."
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