"Like a shadow, I am and I am not."
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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. These shadows look so thick to him and weigh him down so that when he finds they are shadows and that he can see through them, walk through them and be again in the sun, he is enormously delighted. And I am afraid I am just as delighted as he is."
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"All of [the] activities here have a surreptitious end-of-the-world feel to them:... these joggers sleepwalking in the mist like shadow's who have escaped from Plato's cave"
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"Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth."
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"Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions."
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"A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?"
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"Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow."
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"There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves"
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"Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows."
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"Some illusions...are the shadows of great truths."
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"A good horse runs with seeing just the shadow of the whip."
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"The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They are touches of light and shadow, and raise a ridge, or sink a hollow, not to represent an actual ridge or hollow, but to get a line of light, or a spot of darkness."
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"... there are shadows because there are hills."
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"Pray, pray, thou who also weepest,-- And the drops will slacken so; Weep, weep--and the watch thou keepest, With a quicker count will go. Think,--the shadow on the dial For the nature most undone, Marks the passing of the trial, Proves the presence of the sun."
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"Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away."
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"The word is the shadow of the deed."
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"Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem."
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"Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing."
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"Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured; unless the shadows of individual existence came and went against a background that held together."
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"Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues."
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