Victor Hugo Quotes, Shadow Quotes, Throat Quotes

A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

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To think of shadows is a serious thing.

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Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

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To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day,And empty shadow of what is to be;Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,And ends but only when our being ends.

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To contemplate is to look at shadows.

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As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.

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Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.

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Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Essentials Quotes

Surely there had been no figure leaning on the back of his chair; no face looking over it. It is certain that no gliding footstep touched the floor, as he lifted up his head, with a start, and spoke. And yet there was no mirror in the room on whose surface his own form could have cast its shadow for a moment; and, Something had passed darkly and gone!

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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

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Understand that the body is merely the foam of a wave, the shadow of a shadow.

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It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.

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Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other.

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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

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Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.

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A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.

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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

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For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke.

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There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.

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

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