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But when we set out to understand somebody’s inside? Is that a trip that ever ends? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories?

Pascal Mercier
shadowsoulstories
Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shado... by Pascal Mercier

Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations?

Pascal Mercier
shadowimaginationpeople

...if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.

Patrick Rothfuss
shadowheartchildren

The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

Oscar Wilde
shadowdawnrooms

Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one another, who have enabled us to understand that we all, from every part of the world, live in one world.

Paul Auster
shadowdifferenthero
Fantastic shadows of birds by Oscar Wilde

Fantastic shadows of birds

Oscar Wilde
fantasticshadowbird

I'm interested in the landscape of the face, the way in which light and shadow fall across the forms. That's really my subject matter.

Paul Emsley
shadowlightfall
Like strange mechanical grotesques, by Oscar Wilde

Like strange mechanical grotesques,

Oscar Wilde
strangeshadowperception

Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

Oscar Wilde
shadowrealnight

Look closely at the Japanese; they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows.

Paul Gauguin
shadowlightlooks

If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.

Paul Gauguin
startingshadowfigures

I'm not denying that in the world there's been some tremendous musical happenings, like DJ Shadow or whatever, that kind of thing. But when it goes into the weird thing where you get a remix done by a certain person because they need a brand name, that's when it becomes really discouraging.

Paul Morley
shadowmusicalnames

... the blinding Hiroshima flash... literally photographed the shadow cast by beings and things, so that every surface immediately became war's recording surface, its film.

Paul Virilio
filmshadowwar
The shadows cannot speak. by Paula Gunn Allen

The shadows cannot speak.

Paula Gunn Allen
shadowspeak

Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who directly or indirectly participate in revolution intend - conditioned by the myths of the old order - to make it their private revolution. The shadow of their former oppressor is still cast over them.

Paulo Freire
revolutionshadoworder

Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.

Pearl S. Buck
sins-notnovelistsshadow

Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
blackshadownight
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exis... by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
shadowpaintragedy
The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongs... by Percy Bysshe Shelley

The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
unseenshadowpower

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

Peter Ackroyd
shadowableworld
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