Shadow Quotes
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Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die. But, once realise what the true object is in life that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!
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It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.
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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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To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.
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Swift as shadow, short as any dream
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How do you see those tree?... They are yellow. Well then put down yellow. And that shadow is rather blue. So render it with pure ultramarine. Those red leaves? Use vermillion.
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And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.
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The world is always somewhat vicious. I take that as a given, but at various times in various circumstances that fact will be no more than a shadow or an echo behind some poem. Other times it will be more manifest. I try to write myself into articulations of half-felt, half-known feelings, without program. I'm always working toward getting my world and, hopefully, the world outside of me into a version that makes sense of it. Viciousness requires the same precision as love does.
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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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Understand that the body is merely the foam of a wave, the shadow of a shadow.
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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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The shadow moves across the darkened streets, surveying its domain. The fog is like a living thing.
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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 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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What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?
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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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By day each soul must walk within its shadow. Only night can make us whole again.
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Long drawn, the cool, green shadows Steal o'er the lake's warm breast, And the ancient silence follows The burning sun to rest. The calm of a thousand summers, And dreams of countless Junes, Return when the lake-wind murmurs Through golden August noons.
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I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.
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My shadow is only half of what it should be." "Everyone has their shortcomings.
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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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There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.
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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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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.
