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"People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the spider-face beyond and the great web of it all. That there's always this if you scratch at the surface of happiness and goodness.The black and the black and the black."
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"Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?"
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"Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance."
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"Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult."
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"In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast."
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"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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"I'll often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours."
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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 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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"Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow."
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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."
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"Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them."
Love
"Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man."
Life
"I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me."
Society
"Perhaps twenty minutes later he realized she had gone to sleep. He quietly removed his now stiff arm, then turned away. It must have woken her a little After a moment he felt her turn as well and lay a hand, instinctively, like a sleeping wife, across his hips; as if, in some dream, he was the one who escaped."
Romance
"These question-boundaries ...are ours, not of reality. We are led to them, caged by them not only culturally and intellectually, but quite physically, by the restlessness of our eyes and their limited field and acuity of vision."
Philosophy
"Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive."
Life
"I had always believed, and not only out of cynicism, that a man and a woman could tell in the first ten minutes whether they wanted to go to bed together; and that the time that passed after those first ten minutes represented a tax, which might be worth paying if the article promised to be really enjoyable, but which nine times out of ten became rapidly excessive."
Desire
"A total stranger, and one not of one's sex, is often the least prejudiced judge."
Society
"In spite of her superficial independence, her fundamental need was to cling.All her life was an attempt to disprove it; and so proved it. She was like a sea anemone -- had only to be touched once to adhere to what touched her."
Psychology
"Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical."
Duty
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