“Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.”
“that books were mirrors, reflective in sometimes unpredictable ways.”
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american novelist 1950Related quotes
“There are two ways of spreading light.. to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be
The candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
"Vesalius in Zante (1564)", in North American Review (November 1902), p. 631
Variant: There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 115.
“Mirrors should reflect before sending an image.”
“Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.”
“If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.”
¶ 73
A Short Organum for the Theatre (1949)