"Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?"
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"When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow."
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"Between the vision and the act lies the shadow."
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"Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals."
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"My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone."
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"I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure, Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests. [Kepler's epitaph]"
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"But when we set out to understand somebody’s inside? Is that a trip that ever ends? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories?"
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"The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed."
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"I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that."
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"What mattered to Abu was the music of the sentence. 'A shadow does not belong to the object that casts it.' To Abu, it was a little poem. And in general, it was the poetics, the music of things that tossed his confetti."
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"Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty."
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"...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow."
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"Now God comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the sun at noon to illustrate all shadows, as the sheaves in harvest, to fill all penuries, all occasions invite his mercies, and all times are his seasons."
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"It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge."
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"God is truth and light his shadow."
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"The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun."
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"Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun."
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"Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun."
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"We can't escape the shadow, so the best thing we can do is notice the light and be open to it."
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"This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning."
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