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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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And the heart sounds like a sour conch,calls, oh sea, oh lament, oh molten panic,scattered in the un...

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Pablo NerudaThe Essential Neruda: Selected Poems

There are no shadows in the Underdark. There is no room for imagination in the Underdark. It is a pl...

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It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.

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Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes

There is shadow under this red rock // (Come in under the shadow of this red rock) // And I will sho...

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

You see how I live: shadows and silence, leaving things as I find them because I have no reason to d...

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Thomas LigottiGrimscribe: His Lives and Works

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

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Hope drowned in shadowsemerges fiercely splendid––boldly angelic.

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AberjhaniThe River of Winged Dreams

With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of di...

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AberjhaniVisions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

At such moments the collapse of their courage, willpower, and endurance was so abrupt that they felt...

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we said we would be to each other as two voices, who shadows.

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

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

I am glad that it is old and big. I myself am of an old family, and to live in a new house would kil...

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It was the shadow of Some one who had gone by long before: of Some one who had gone on far away quit...

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What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on th...

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Beyond thought I reach a state. I refuse to divide it up into words - and what I cannot and do not w...

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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

Here, Earth-born, over the lilt of the water,Lisping its music and bearing a burden of light,Bosomin...

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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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I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down daemons from the stars. . . . I have harnes...

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He was a dim secondary social success -- and all with people who had truly not an idea of him. It wa...

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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

They themselves do not see the world of light as we do, but our shapes cast shadows in their minds, ...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring

The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against ...

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Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-br...

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Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light depri...

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If you dont have any shadows you're not in the light

When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

One night after dinner a group of us were talking about the supernatural, and one of our dinner gues...

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Gregory of Nyssa points out that Moses's vision of God began with the light, with the visible burnin...

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Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

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Mark TwainThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn