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“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

Edith Wharton · Inspirational

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Edith Wharton

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

Age

Edith Wharton

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Art

Edith Wharton

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

Good

Edith Wharton

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

Imagination