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Shadows
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“Our shadows are taller than ourselves.”
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“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.”
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“To light a candle is to cast a shadow ... ”
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“To see a shadow and think it is a tree — that is a pity, but to see a tree and think it is a shadow can be fatal.”
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“Marred pleasure's best, shadow makes the sun strong.”
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“And this I have learned: Grownups do not know the language of shadows.”
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“There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow.”
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“The shadows cannot speak.”
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“Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.”
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“Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.”
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“Women endowed with remarkable sensibilities enjoy much, but they also suffer much. The greater the light the stronger will be the shadow.”
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“I better like that shadowed side of things / In which the Poets wrote not; when they went / Unto the fullness of their great content / Like moths into the grass with folded wings. / The silence of the Poets with it brings / The other side of moons, and it is spent / In love, in sorrow, or in wonderment.”
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“One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.”
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“Among shadows, things appear larger than they really are.”
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“The kindliest thing God ever made, / His hand of very healing laid / Upon a fevered world, is shade.”
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“Morning: such long shadows / Like low-bellied cats / Creep under parked cars / And out again, stealthily / Flattening the grasses.”
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“Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.”
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“Living in a culture that prefers to shut out the dark, avoid shadows, and anesthetize pain means that many people are isolated. ... Family, friends, and co-workers, fearful of the dark, are reluctant to participate in our shadow experience and may urge us to be done with the dark before it is done with us.”
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“This learned I from the shadow of a tree, / That to and fro did sway against a wall — , / Our shadow-selves, our influence, may fall / Where we can never be.”
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“Treasure the shadow. ... There are no shadows save from substance cast.”
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“Don't be afraid of your dark places. ... If you can shine a light on them, you'll find treasure there.”