"But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat."
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"Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories, like wandering shadows that could have acquired substance only by consenting to root themselves in the solid earth of their distress."
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"But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows."
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"Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee!"
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"My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done."
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"And it is very much lamented,... That you have no such mirrors as will turn Your hidden worthiness into your eye That you might see your shadow."
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"Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light."
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"Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say."
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"I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow."
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"There is nothing in the whole world which abides. All things are in a state of ebb and flow, and every shadow passes away. Even time itself, like a river, is constantly gliding away ."
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"Wherever a person goes, his deeds, like a shadow, will follow."
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"My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly where I set down each and every one of them, and how I felt when I did. Short stories are like guideposts to my heart."
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"I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - (pause) - after a few moments she did, but the eyes just slits, because of the glare I bent over her to get them in the shadow and they opened. (Pause. Low) Let me in."
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"I got a new shadow. I had to get rid of the other one – it wasn’t doing what I was doing."
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"In truth everything and everyone Is a shadow of the Beloved, And our seeking is His seeking And our words are His words... We search for Him here and there, while looking right at Him. Sitting by His side, we ask: 'O Beloved, where is the Beloved?'"
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"If you don't have any shadows, you're not standing in the light."
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"And yet, Eomer, I say to you that she loves you more truly than me, for you she loves and knows; but in me she loves only a shadow and a thought: a hope of glory and great deeds, and lands far from the fields of Rohan. - Aragorn to Eomer, of Eowyn"
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"Look, up at the sky. There is a light, a beauty up there, that no shadow can touch"
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"Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead"
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"You pronounced your words as if you don’t acknowledge the shadows, or the evil either. Would you be so kind as to give a little thought to the question of what your good would be doing if evil did not exist, and how the earth would look if the shadows were to disappear from it?"
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