"July. VII Month.", Poor Richard's Almanack (1758), Philadelphia: B. Frankin and D. Hall
Poor Richard's Almanack
Source: His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass (2000), Ch. 2 : Balthamos and Baruch
Context: Will considered what to do. When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don’t take are snuffed out like candles, as if they’d never existed. At the moment all Will’s choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.
“In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations
Addition aux Pensées philosophiques (1770)
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
“How quickly the candles multiply that have been put out.”
"Candles" [Κεριά], as translated by Manolis, in Constantine P. Cavafy: Poems (2008) edited by George Amabile
Context: I look before me at my lighted candles,
I don’t want to turn around and see with horror
How quickly the dark line is lengthening,
How quickly the candles multiply that have been put out.
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986), Chapter 19 (p. 320)
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
Candle in the Wind
Song lyrics, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)
