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Light Quotes by Edith Wharton
- There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.
- Her vivid smile was like a light held up to dazzle me.
- There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
- She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way…
- I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself…
- Selden and Lily stood still, accepting the unreality of the scene as a part of their own dream-like sensations. It would not have surprised them…
- He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found…
- She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale on…
- There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. --Edith Wharton
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