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“Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“If we shadows have offended, think but this,—and all is mended,— that you have but slumber'd here while these visions did appear.” William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

“I knew nothing but shadows, and I thought them real.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow.” Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass, that I may see my shadow as I pass.” William Shakespeare, Richard III

“Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.” Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“He takes false shadows for true substances.” William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

“Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow.” John Green, Looking for Alaska

“There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes,...” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“True, he said; how could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?” Plato, The Republic

“Such a nature, tickled with good success, disdains the shadow which he treads on at noon.” William Shakespeare, Coriolanus

“No, no, I am but shadow of myself. You are deceiv'd, my substance is not here;” William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1

“May your shadow never grow less (or stealing would be too easy)!” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“The brightest flame casts the darkest shadows.” George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.” George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

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