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Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.

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Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.

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The heart of mine is only one, it cannot be known by anybody but myself.

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The older we get the more we seem to think that everything was better in the past.

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For a woman who lived in the dark it was enough if she had a faint, white face -a full body was unnecessary.

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Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.

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I'm partly somebody else trying to fit in and say the right things and do the right thing and be in the right place and wear what everybody else is wearing. Sometimes I think we're all trying to be shadows of each other, trying to buy the same records and everything even if we don't like them. Kids are like robots, off an assembly line, and I don't want to be a robot!

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The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.

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Don't be afraid of the shadows, it only means there's a light nearby.

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