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Shadow of the
«It is better to follow even the shadow of the best, than to remain content with the worst, and those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone»
«Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life»
Author: Jean de La Fontaine
(Poet)
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Friendship
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evening, increases, setting, shadow, Shadow of the, The Shadow
«The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.»
Author: Ralph Ellison
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Writing
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ghostlike, hover, hovered, hovers, plunged, plunges, plunging, Shadow of the, The Shadow
«I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.»
Author: Wendell Berry
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climbed, healing, heat, of my own, orchard, orchards, planted, Public place, Shadow of the, The Vines, vines, woods
«You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship. You squeeze the slender arm which is passed through yours, you venture to take the little gloved hand, you say good night at absurd length in the shadow of the door. It is innocent and very interesting, love trying his wings in a first little flutter.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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«Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
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lacking, Power of Love, predominate, predominates, predominating, rules, shadow, Shadow of the, The Power Of Love, The Shadow
«When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality»
«Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
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Ideas
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A Beautiful Mind, branch, gesture, Shadow of the, The Shadow