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shadow awful degrees
As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow degrees, - or out of it there came, by some unreal, unsubstantial process - not to be traced by any human sense, - an awful likeness of himself! Charles Dickens
shadow prestige money-and-power
Prestige is the shadow of money and power. C. Wright Mills
shadow
somethings can only be seen in the shadows Carlos Ruiz Zafon
shadow wish get-up
I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me. Jandy Nelson
shadow ordinary encounters
If you encounter a human shadow burned permanently into the concrete in Hiroshima, you realize that this is the trace of a very ordinary person now elevated into the emblematic. Time, shame, complicity, or discomfort are the only things that make us pretend History is impersonal or far removed from the power and consequences of our every lived moment. Chris Abani
shadow-work shadow way
Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called 'shadow work,' not least because that is no small part of their own way of working. Jane Hirshfield
shadow vices deceiving
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue. Juvenal
shadow towns monsters
I’m a monster,” said the shadow of the Marquess suddenly. “Everyone says so.” The Minotaur glanced up at her. “So are we all, dear,” said the Minotaur kindly. “The thing to decide is what kind of monster to be. The kind who builds towns or the kind who breaks them. Catherynne M. Valente
shadow world faces
Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face. Carl Jung
wish gum enough
By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head! C. S. Lewis
wish invisible
And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see.
wish leisure wit
if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.
wish use type
I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing Alan Ladd
wish looks too-much
One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it. Djuna Barnes
wish language british
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. Diane Wakoski
wish world back-again
Wish I could spin my world into reverse just to have you back again David Guetta
wish genius taste
There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them. Jane Austen
wish shy natural
I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness." -Edward Ferrars