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• Every light has its shadow, and every shadow hath a succeeding morning.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Morning, Light, Succeed

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• A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.

  Homer

  Hunters, Shade, Hmmm

  "Odyssey". Poem by Homer, XI,

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• Don't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.

  Wole Soyinka

  Reality, Safety, Illusion

  Wole Soyinka, James Gibbs (1980). “Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka”, p.111, Lynne Rienner Publishers

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• I tend to watch silently from the shadows. You learn a lot more that way.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Watches, Way, Nick Gautier

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.99, St. Martin's Griffin

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• We are but dust and shadows.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dust

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2015). “Nothing but Shadows”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• We think not in words but in shadows of words.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Thinking

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.498, Vintage

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• Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

  E. M. Forster

  Umpires, Room With A View, Darkness To Light

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.470, Delphi Classics

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• In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Success, Order, Importance

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• The mind is the shadow of the light it seeks.

  Jim Dodge

  Light, Mind

  Jim Dodge (2004). “Stone Junction: An Alchemical Pot-Boiler”, p.384, Canongate Books

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• Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Mind, Speak

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• A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

  Rudyard Kipling

  People, Ends

  "The Art of Writing" by André Maurois, ("The Writer's Craft," sct. 2), 1960.

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• What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?

  Umberto Eco

  Dream, Fleeting, What Is Life

  Umberto Eco (2003). “Baudolino”, p.353, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Those you love leave behind their shadows to walk, always, with you in the form of memories.

  Helen Hollick

  Memories, Form, Walks

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• To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.

  Carl Jung

  Light, Shows, Persons

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• Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dance, Writing, Echoes

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• One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

  Carl Jung

  Love Life, Suicidal, Knowledge

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler, Michael Scott Montague Fordham (1973). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Alchemical studies”

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• I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.

  Adam Johnson

  Motivational, Self, Champion

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• Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Character, Tree, Reputation

  Abraham Lincoln, Anthony Gross (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”

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

  Samuel Smiles

  Inspirational, Hope, Motivation

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.67

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• Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light.

  Terry Pratchett

  Light, Long

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.423, Random House

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• Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.

  Evita Peron

  Mirrors, Sun

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• Shadow conceals—light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to art.

  Josef von Sternberg

  Art, Light, Degrees

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• Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow

  T. S. Eliot

  Fall, Reality, Ideas

  "The Hollow Men" l. 72 (1925)

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• Love that ends is the shadow of love; true love is without beginning or end.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Love, Ends, Love Is

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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