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A fleeting shadow is a silent epigram of remembrance, teasing the substance of truth while flirting with oblivion.
Author:
Clara DeCarlo
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To admire fleeting shadows is to embrace the complexity of existence; they whisper truths only in twilight and dance among perceptions, styling certainties in ambiguity.
Author:
Alex Rivera
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In the dance of retreating dusk, shadows remind us that beauty thrives only in transience, beckoning us to revel in moments that fade like smoke but shall never be ultimately forgotten.
Author:
Isolde Meyer
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Bravery breathes in the mundane--weaving life's shadow into pure light, as the smallest actions break through suffocating silences.
Author:
Emilia Clardeau
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When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
Author:
William Yeats
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The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
Author:
William Yeats
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I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.
Author:
Bill Wyman
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Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.
Author:
Roy Williams
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Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
Author:
Elie Wiesel
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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Author:
Charlotte Whitton
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.
Author:
Roger Waters
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For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with.
Author:
Ginny Waite
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Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.
Author:
Georg Trakl
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We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.
Author:
Junichiro Tanizaki
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Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.
Author:
Junichiro Tanizaki
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News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are.
Author:
Arthur Sulzberger
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Man is a substance clad in shadows.
Author:
John Sterling
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American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.
Author:
John Sousa
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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
Author:
Sydney Smith
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The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Author:
James Shirley
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One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.
Author:
David Selby
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The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one.
Author:
David Selby
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In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
Author:
August Sander
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Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
Author:
John Ruskin
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My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful.
Author:
Satyajit Ray
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Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
Author:
Jean Racine
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Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.
Author:
Ernie Pyle
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Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.
Author:
Evita Peron
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.
Author:
Austin O'Malley
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There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.
Author:
Richard O'Brien
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Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.
Author:
Grandma Moses
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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.
Author:
Hermann Minkowski
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But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.
Author:
Armistead Maupin
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What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
Author:
Christopher Marlowe
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Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people... have to walk out of the shadows.
Author:
Albert Maltz
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Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
Author:
George MacDonald
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Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.
Author:
Lorna Luft
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A child can escape the shadows.
Author:
Steve Largent
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How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
Author:
Joseph Joubert
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In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.
Author:
Gwen John
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Nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently live within our borders. That's 11 million people living in the shadows whom we know next to nothing about.
Author:
Steve Israel
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My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked that period.
Author:
Tony Iommi
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To contemplate is to look at shadows.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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To think of shadows is a serious thing.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.
Author:
Thomas Hooker
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Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.
Author:
David Hockney
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
Author:
O. Henry
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Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.
Author:
Conrad Hall
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It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.
Author:
Conrad Hall
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Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Author:
John Fletcher
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What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
Author:
Desiderius Erasmus
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You can disguise any set with lights and shadows.
Author:
Allan Dwan
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Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
Author:
Theodore Dreiser
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There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
Author:
Charles Dickens
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I'll often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours.
Author:
Thayer David
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
Author:
William Cowper
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Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
Author:
Paulo Coelho
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I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm travelling toward light.
Author:
Bruce Cockburn
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One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.
Author:
Jennie Churchill
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It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.
Author:
Kate Chopin
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Author:
Edmund Burke
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If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.
Author:
H. Blavatsky
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It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.
Author:
H. Blavatsky
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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
Author:
Henry Beecher
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I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.
Author:
Martha Beck
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The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
Author:
Gaston Bachelard
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I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one.
Author:
Gary Allan
