"Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth."
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"Til shade is gone, til water is gone Into the shadow with teeth bared Screaming defiance with the last breath To spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day."
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"Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect."
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"Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows."
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"Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other"
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"When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us."
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"God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?"
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"Before Cliff (Richard) and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music."
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"Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows."
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"We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand."
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"We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more."
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"Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday."
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"As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall."
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"Truth can be sliced a hundred different ways, and it will still remain true, but falsehood shrinks into the shadows, hoping never to be tested, with excuses aplenty."
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"Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt."
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"I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy."
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"I will die Before My Time. Because I feel the shadow's Depth. So much I wanted to accomplish. before I reached my Death"
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"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow."
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"All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon."
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"I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life."
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