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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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"I'll often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours."

"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."

"One is forever throwing away substance for shadows."

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

"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."
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"If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police."

"It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face."

"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."

"The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye."
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