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• A dream itself is but a shadow. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act ii, Sc. 2
• Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That in a spleen unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, "Behold!
  The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion....
• Where there is much light there is also much shadow. -- Goethe
• Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. Aesop
• What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough
  for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams....
• I've seen him shadow boxing and the shadow won.
• Hence, horrible shadow! Unreal mockery, hence! -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Macbeth -- Act iii, Sc.
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• Airy ambition, soaring high. -- Sheffield
• Like a shadow from the tomb...