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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The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest. – Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

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