Shadow Quotes
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The lesson of the Federation should be that the lesson is over. Australia must have a new idea of itself. We have to strike out in a new direction, in a new way, armed with our own self-regard, our own confidence and fully appreciating our own uniqueness. All other roads will lead us into the shadow of great powers.
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To forsake Christ for the world, is to leave a treasure for a trifle, eternity for a moment, reality for a shadow
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It's part of what we call the Shadow, all the dark parts of us we can't face. It's the thing that, if we don't deal with it, eventually poisons our lives.
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When You Are In The Light, Everything Follows You, But When You Enter Into The Dark, Even Your Own Shadow Doesn't Follow You.
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'Shadow Hero' was my first superhero story. I don't know why it took so long.
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Remember, light and shadow never stand still.
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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
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As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow degrees, - or out of it there came, by some unreal, unsubstantial process - not to be traced by any human sense, - an awful likeness of himself!
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No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here.
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I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky. And from the inside, too, I'd duplicate Myself, my lamp, an apple on a plate: Uncurtaining the night, I'd let dark glass Hang all the furniture above the grass, And how delightful when a fall of snow Covered my glimpse of lawn and reached up so As to make chair and bed exactly stand Upon that snow, out in that crystal land!
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The light of the future casts the shadows of tomorrow.
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It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.
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I lean over you, your equal, offering you a mirror for your perfect nothingness, for your shadows which are neither light nor absence of light, for this void which contemplates. To all that which you are, and, for our language, are not, I add a consciousness. I make you experience your supreme identity as a relationship, I name you and define you. You become a delicious passivity.
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A dream itself is but a shadow.
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The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.
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Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dreamBut of a shadow, summ'd with all his substance.
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dreams are shadows cast by truth shining on our darkest secrets
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When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow.
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A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.
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As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers.
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Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame.
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A person does not...stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with regard to ourself exposed on his surface...but is a shadow which we can never succeed in penetrating...a shadow behind which we can alternately imagine, with equal justification, that there burns the flame of hatred and of love.
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A man is nothing but breath and shadow.
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What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?
