Friday, December 31, 2021

The candle or the mirror (Edith Wharton)


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

--Edith Wharton        

Image source: Georges de La Tour, The Penitent Magdalen (ca. 1640), detail, https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/now-at-the-met/2014/reflections-charles-le-bruns-mirrored-presence
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