Shadow Quotes
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In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body.
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The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding qualities of its own, being merely a way-station through which events travel to the vast shadow lands of the past.
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A good horse runs with seeing just the shadow of the whip.
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In a dark time, the eye begins to see I meet my shadow in the deepening shade...Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.
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It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.
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One glance proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that these unions (railroad craft unions) are exceedingly useful to the corporations; and to the extent that they serve the economic and political purposes of the corporations, they are the foes – and not the friends – of the working class.
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Understand that the body is merely the foam of a wave, the shadow of a shadow.
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I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.
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Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt
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Swift as shadow, short as any dream
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Man's life is but a jest, A dream, a shadow, bubble, air, a vapor at the best.
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There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.
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By day each soul must walk within its shadow. Only night can make us whole again.
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It was strange to see that no matter what color the clothing first appeared—and they were all hues, from earthy copper and garnet to the blue of sky and shadow—in different light all turned to some shade of green, as if there were a third plane to the cloth’s weaving beyond the warp and weft.
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Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.
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Venice seemed incredibly lovely, elvishly lovely--to me like a dream of Old Gondor, or Pelargir of the Numenorean Ships, before the return of the Shadow.
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Love is the light that casts no shadow.
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I sit in thy shadow but not alone.
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What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against a sweating wall, That place among the rocks--is it a cave, Or winding path? The edge is what I have........ ....... Dark,dark my light, and darker my desire. My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly, Keeps buzzing at the sill. ~From "The Waking" by Theodore Roethke
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They stared out their window at night enough to know where the darkest shadows lay, and it was to the darkest shadows they kept.
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I have the impression of moving in the shadow of syllables, in regions before secrets, where language cannot yet answer the call of thought, in swamps where you risk sinking with every breath.
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We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
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Hidan: That was pitiful! What happened there, buddy? Kakuzu: You should talk. I wasn't the one who fell for a shadow clone! Hidan: Ahaha, right. You saw that?
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What is peculiar to modern societies is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to speaking of it ad infinitum, while exploiting it as the secret.
