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• I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/By the false azure in the windowpane.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Azure, Windowpane

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.418, Vintage

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• It is only the quietest one who can hear all the voices of the world; only the shadows can see all the lights!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Light, Voice, World

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

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Light, Looks

  Poems (1895) "The Countess Cathleen" act 3

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• Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Light, Two

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

  Thomas Browne

  Shadow Of Death, Soul, Departed

  'The Garden of Cyrus' (1658) ch. 4

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• Our good and bad deeds follow us almost like a shadow.

  Gautama Buddha

  Deeds, Good And Bad

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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.

  Mary Stewart

  Hope, Fall, Light

  Mary Stewart (1978). “Hollow Hills”, Fawcett

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• Being desirable means being comfortable with your own ambiguity. The most ambiguous reality is that we are flesh and spirit at the same time. Within everyone there is light and shadow, good and evil, love and hate. In order to be truthful, you must embrace your total being. A person who exhibits both positive and negative qualities, strengths and weaknesses is not flawed, but complete.

  Rumi

  Hate, Mean, Reality

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• Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.

  Charles de Lint

  Inspiration, Dark, Light

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• The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Political

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• I think evil is our collective shadow. Each one of us has a tendency for the diabolical. If I put you in inhumane conditions, if you're not educated, if you're extremely poor, if you're humiliated, then as a child if you suffer abuse, then you will manifest even when you grow up.

  Deepak Chopra

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

  "Deepak Chopra Traces Jesus' Untold Story". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. November 10, 2008.

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• Tonight, the moon came out, it was nearly full.
  Way down here on earth, I could feel it's pull.
  The weight of gravity or just the lure of life,
  Made me want to leave my only home tonight.
  
  I'm just wondering how we know where we belong
  Is it in the arc of the moon, leaving shadows on the lawn
  In the path of fireflies and a single bird at dawn
  Singing in between here and gone

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Life, Nature, Travel

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• Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.

  Diane Ackerman

  Art, Light, Buckets

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.9, Vintage

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• Has the dark shadow really disappeared? Or is it inside me, concealed, waiting for its chance to reappear? Like a clever thief hidden inside a house, breathing quietly, waiting until everyone’s asleep. I have looked deep inside myself, trying to detect something that might be there. But just as our consciousness is a maze, so too is our body. Everywhere you turn there’s darkness, and a blind spot. Everywhere you find silent hints, everywhere a surprise is waiting for you.

  Haruki Murakami

  Clever, Dark, Breathing

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• Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with shadows as with solid things.

  Dante Alighieri

  My Love For You, Emptiness, Forget

  Dante Alighieri (2003). “The Portable Dante”, p.376, Penguin

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• What does it mean when nightmares dream of peace? When shadows wish for light?

  Melissa Marr

  Dream, Mean, Light

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

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Educational, Ideas, Literature

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• This wordly life is like a shadow. If you try to catch it, you will never be able to do so. If you turn your back towards it, it has no choice but to follow you.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Choices, Life Is Like, Trying

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• I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  World, Madness, Stride

  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “THE WEIRD TALES of H. P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness, The Call of Cthulhu, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Shunned House, The Outsider, Pickmanäó»s Model, The Picture in the House, The Templeäó_: The Greatest Tales of Horror & Macabre: The Cats of Ulthar, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Colour Out of Space, The Horror at Red Hook, The Strange High House in the Mist, From Beyond, Dagonäó_”, p.33, e-artnow

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• Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.

  Langston Hughes

  Love Is, Tree, Naked

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940”, p.107, University of Missouri Press

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• You musn’t be afraid of the dark.’ ‘I’m not,’ said Shadow. ‘I’m afraid of the people in the dark.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dark, People, Said

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• What happens tomorrow is but the shadow of thoughts we held today.

  Joan Bennett Kennedy

  Today, Tomorrow, Happens

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• But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.

  Samuel Beckett

  Light, Shining, Lamps

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.113, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

  Richelle Mead

  Powerful, Political, Politics

  Michelle Rowen, Richelle Mead (2011). “Vampire Academy: The Ultimate Guide”, p.178, Penguin

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• Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

  George MacDonald

  God, Christian, Wings

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.10063, e-artnow

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