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• What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind. If a man speaks or acts with an impure mind, suffering will follow him as the wheel of the cart follows the beast that draws the cart. If a man speaks or acts with a pure mind, joy follows him as his own shadow.

  Gautama Buddha

  Men, Yesterday, Meditation

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• The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Fleeting, Littles

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Inspirational, Dark, Light

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

  T. S. Eliot

  Morning, Fear, Rocks

  The Waste Land l. 25 (1922)

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• Journey’s end In western lands beneath the Sun The flowers may rise in Spring, The trees may bud, the waters run, The merry finches sing. Or there maybe 'tis cloudless night, And swaying branches bear The Elven-stars as jewels white Amid their branching hair. Though here at journey's end I lie In darkness buried deep, Beyond all towers strong and high, Beyond all mountains steep, Above all shadows rides the Sun And Stars for ever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, Nor bid the Stars farewell.J.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Running, Strong, Stars

  J. R. R. Tolkien, “Journey's End”

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• The light of genius is sometimes so resplendent as to make a man walk through life, amid glory and acclamation; but it burns very dimly and low when carried into "the valley of the shadow of death." But faith is like the evening star, shining into our souls the more brightly, the deeper is the night of death in which they sink.

  William Mountford

  Faith, Stars, Night

  William Mountford, Frederic Dan Huntington (1850). “Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth”, p.137

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• There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Sweet, Eye, Night

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• I wasn't crying about mothers," he said rather indignantly. "I was crying because I can't get my shadow to stick on. Besides, I wasn't crying.

  James M. Barrie

  Mother, Sticks, Cry

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.18, 谷月社

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• Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Color, Substance

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.241, e-artnow

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• I'd been told of all the things you're meant to feel when your father dies. Sudden freedom, growing up, the end of dependence, the step into the sunlight when no one is taller than you and you're in no one's shadow. I know what I felt. Lonely.

  John Mortimer

  Lonely, Growing Up, Father

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• A moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know that only death has a rictus.

  Joseph Roth

  Moving, Taken, Mean

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• Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

  Oscar Wilde

  Disappointment, Giving, Bitterness

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.67, Wordsworth Editions

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• There are three kinds of men: those who are preceded by their shadow, those who are pursued by it, and those who have never seen the sun.

  Gerd de Ley

  Men, Three, Sun

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• As matters now stand, the veto seems inappropriate, given the absence of any deep ideological split between major states, and definitely constrains the war-prevention mission of the UN. Similarly, the present permanent five are out of touch with geopolitical realities, and constitute a remnant of a West-centric world order, casting a shadow of illegitimacy across the activities of the most important organ of global policymaking in the UN System.

  Richard A. Falk

  War, Reality, Order

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Imagination, Poetry, Casts

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (2007). “Poetry as Insurgent Art”, p.50, New Directions Publishing

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• October was always the least dependable of months ... full of ghosts and shadows.

  Joy Fielding

  Months, October, Ghost

  Joy Fielding (2016). “Tell Me No Secrets: A dark and suspenseful psychological thriller”, p.58, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• I chose the shadows; they did not choose me. I stay here securely not just because I feel plain, but because disappearance is by now the easy way. The habit. The worn path that I can trod knowingly and be assured safe passage home.

  Rod McKuen

  Home, Solitude, Safe

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• A law which excludes all dialectic and all reconciliation; which establishes, consequently, both the flawless unity of knowledge and the uncompromising division of tragic existence; it rules over a world without twilight, which knows no effusion, nor the attenuated cares of lyricism; everything must be either waking or dream, truth or darkness, the light of being or the nothingness of shadow.

  Michel Foucault

  Dream, Twilight, Law

  "Madness and Civilization". Book by Michel Foucault, trans. by R. Howard, 1988.

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• Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.

  Hermann Minkowski

  Independent, Reality, Two

  Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Albert Einstein, Hermann Minkowski, Hermann Weyl, Arnold Sommerfeld (1952). “The Principle of Relativity: A Collection of Original Memoirs on the Special and General Theory of Relativity”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.

  Omar Khayyam

  Magic, World, Phantoms

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald (1989). “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”, p.24, Branden Books

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• To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet: it's just too surprising.  But this book-half microscope, half telescope-shadows grief, our shared and ordinary life where an old neighbor obsessively gathers twigs to wish back the tree, where the moon is regularly ‘sawn in half,’ where sprinklers give off ‘little wet speeches.’  What else?  It's brilliantly instead and odd.

  Marianne Boruch

  Grief, Book, Sadness

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• As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms’ One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace.

  Anne Rice

  Night, Arms, Inexplicable

  Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.248, Ballantine Books

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• Whatever you choose, your choice will mean there are two new worlds. And perhaps sometimes, on the edge of sleep, we will see the shadow of the other world. There will be no unhappy memories.

  Terry Pratchett

  Memories, Mean, Sleep

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• Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe

  Gabriela Mistral

  Inspirational, Beauty, Universe

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• No, we don't walk away. But when we're holding on to something precious, we run. We run and run, fast as we can, and we don't stop running until we are out from under the shadow.

  Neil Cross

  Running, Holding On, Walks

  "Fictional character: The Doctor". "Doctor Who" ("The Rings of Akhaten"), April 06, 2013.

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