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“Be content to love, to dazzle in the light, If only for moments… And then be gone, With gladness in your heart, Before the creeping shadows Claim too much your sadness at leaving.”

Ifs Heart Moments Light Gone Too Much Sadness Shadow Claims Leaving Gladness Dazzle

Author:Scott Hastie

“There's a moment for everyone when you fall into your own shadow and the fact is that it's your shadow and you're forced to live in it. And this is nothing to celebrate or not celebrate. It simply is.”

Moments Facts Fall Shadow Celebrate

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“I've always been aware of the otherworld, of spirits that exist in that twilight place that lies in the corner of our eyes, of fairie and stranger things still that we spy only when we're not really paying attention to them, whispers and flickering shadows, here one moment, gone the instant we turn our heads for a closer look. But I couldn't always find them. And when I did, for a long time I thought they were only this excess of imagination that I carry around inside me, that somehow it was leaking out of me into the world.”

World Looks Long Stills Moments Eye Spirit Lying Turns Imagination Attention Gone Long Time Shadow Corners Stranger Pay Attention Instant Excess Twilight Spy

Author:Charles de Lint

“There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.”

Moments Past Dark Shadow Tragedy Brooding Great Moments

Book:The Spirit of India: volumes presented to Shrimati Indira Gandhi by the Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti

Source: The Spirit of India: volumes presented to Shrimati Indira Gandhi by the Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti

“A few moments before the sun sets, the dark Earth shadow begins to rise in the east... It is nothing less than the shadow of the entire Earth, cast upward onto the atmosphere itself... I saw it over the great plains, and I felt as if I could sense the Earth pivoting silently under my feet.”

Ifs Moments Earth Felt Dark Sun Saws Feet Shadow Casts East Atmosphere If I Could Sun Set

Author:James Elkins

“Has it ever happened to you...? The color of the day suddenly changes to shadow. And you know you're going to remember that moment for the rest of your life.”

Knows Moments Remember Happened Color Shadow That Moment Rest Of Your Life

Author:Martin Amis

“While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence, in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see.”

Years May Moments Reality Might Would Be Able Past Stage Development Shapes Capable Hundred Shadow Complaining Glimpse Mourn Traveller Disappearance Insensitive Stages Of Development

Book:Tristes Tropiques

Source: Tristes Tropiques

“Aristotle Onassis rescued me at a moment when my life was engulfed with shadows. He brought me into a world where one could find both happiness and love. We lived through many beautiful experiences together which cannot be forgotten, and for which I will be eternally grateful.”

World Moments Together Beautiful Shadow And Love Grateful Forgotten Happiness And Love Beautiful Experiences Onassis

Author:Jackie Kennedy

“A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door's shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.”

Life Moments Life Is Doors Movement Arms Shadow Seasons Edges Legs Autumn Delicate Rapids Closing Autumn Days Snowfall Closing Doors

Author:Alan Lightman

“Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.”

Moments Judgment Shadow Motive Distrust

Book:Aphorisms

Source: Aphorisms

“We all experience it. Those moments when we gasp and say, Oh, look at that. Maybe it's nothing more than the way a shadow glides across a face, but in that split second, when you realize something truly remarkable is happening and disappearing right in front of you, if you can pass a camera before your eye, you'll tear a piece of time out of the whole, and in a breath, rescue it and give it new meaning.”

Ifs Way Giving Looks Whole Moments Eye Faces Realizing Pieces Fronts Tears Happenings Shadow Breaths Cameras Photographer Disappear Remarkable Splits Rescue

Author:Joel Meyerowitz

“The duties of each moment are the shadows beneath which hides the divine operation.”

Moments Divine Duty Shadow Operations

Book:Abandonment to Divine Providence

Source: Abandonment to Divine Providence