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"You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there."
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"I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe."

"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."

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

"She spoke of these with animation, and heard my admiring comments with a smile of pleasure: that soon, however, vanished, and was followed by a melancholy sigh; as if in consideration of the insufficiency of all such baubles to the happiness of the human heart, and their woeful inability to supply its insatiate demands."

"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."

"The evil components of our shadow are the part of us that we deplore, the part of us that we prefer not to admit. One must set themselves free from all inhibitions in order to initiate close encounters with their innermost monster. By standing toe-to-toe with the part of ourselves that we most detest, a person is in a position to slay their fiendish sense of self and, by doing so, undergo a soulful transformation."
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"You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere."


"You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there."
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