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as the shadows assumeshapesI fight the slowretreatnowmy once-promisedwindlingdwindlingnowlighting ne...

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, brig...

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Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves...

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Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you migh...

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What shadows we are what shadows we pursue!

I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, bu...

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One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.

Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who thi...

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The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

New struggles. -- After Buddha was dead, they still showed his shadow in a cave for centuries -- a c...

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Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are." He favored Jon with a rueful grin. "Remember this, boy. All...

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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.

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Gilles DeleuzeFrancis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It’s like your shadow. It follow...

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He's looking into the night, in case a shadow comes to listen and look.

Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are...

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the...

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Here upon earth there is life, and then death,Dawn, and later nightfall,Fire, and the quenching of e...

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Shadows are in reality when the sun is shining the most conspicuous thing in a landscape next to ...

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If we wander around as politicians jumping at every shadow and desperately afraid of having our word...

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Sometime the witch hunting takes on atrocious dimensions — the Nazi persecution of Jews, the Salem w...

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Ken WilberNo Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right...

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Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

Listen, she said, "cherubim have come to my planet before.""I know that. Where do you think I got my...

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Meg looked. The dark shadow was still there. It had not lessened or dispersed with the coming of nig...

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To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the ton...

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I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of ...

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Look upon men and things with the inner eye, with its form and desire, never forgetting that the sha...

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What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows ...

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You spoke your words as though you denied the very existence of the shadows or of evil. Think, now: ...

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They were ready to sell people a future in exchange for their past... They wanted to compel him to c...

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Milan KunderaThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting

So," he asked. "How's death?""Hard," she said. "It just keeps going.

Everything that is,casts a shadow

He was cold, standing in a wood, talking to a big black bird who was currently brunching on Bambi.

To bite off your shadow is neither easy nor painless. It demands a single-mindedness that is almost ...

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I will not be my father's dog.

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Neil GaimanTrigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of th...

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The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals,...

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What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

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Oscar WildeA House of Pomegranates

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

beyond the earth and the shadowthe brightness of our love will stay alive

Oh, beloved, and there is nothing but shadowswhere you accompany me in your dreamsand tell me the ho...

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No one will retrieve my lost heartamidst so many roots, in the bitter freshnessof the sun multiplied...

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Speak you too,speak as the last,say out your say.Speak-But don’t split off No from Yes.Give your say...

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What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is litt...

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And now we come to the Heart of our Designe: the art of Shaddowes you must know well, Walter, and yo...

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Men are the dreams of a shadow.

No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the...

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So don't be frightened, dear friend, if a sadness confronts you larger than any you have ever known,...

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Only he whose bright lyrehas sounded in shadowsmay, looking onward, restorehis infinite praise. Only...

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Desire, desire which knows, we draw no advantage from our shadows except from some veritable soverei...

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No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so o...

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I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.

They constantly try to escapeFrom the darkness outside and withinBy dreaming of systems so perfect t...

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Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shad...

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The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increas...

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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alon...

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There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.

Still as On windless nights The moon-cast shadows are, So still will be my heart when I Am dead.

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Adelaide CrapseyVerse by Adelaide Crapsey

Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life des...

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Wherever this is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me.

Wherever there is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me.

MINISTER: All he has done is to find some means of bewitching the intelligence. He has only induced ...

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Angela CarterThe Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

In Pliny I read about the invention of clay modeling. A Sicyonian potter came to Corinth. There his ...

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When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seein...

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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. Th...

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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.