Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touche

Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn. – Leo Tolstoy, to Nikolay Strakhov

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Catch a vista of maples in that long light and you see Autumn glowing through the leaves…. The promise of gold and crimson is there among the branches, though as yet it is achieved on only a stray branch, an impatient limb or an occasional small tree which has not yet learned to time its changes. – Hal Borland

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The days may not be so bright and balmy—yet the quiet and melancholy that linger around them is fraught with glory. Over everything connected with autumn there lingers some golden spell—some unseen influence that penetrates the soul with its mysterious power. – Northern Advocate

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The sun tires of summer and sighs itself into autumn. – Terri Guillemets

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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring…. I thought of the future, and spoke of the past. – Truman Capote

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