Quote#Nature
The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy…
Quote byWilkie Collins · 1824–1889
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Woman in White (1859), Epoch 1, Walter Hartright, ch. VIII.
English (original)
The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.
— Wilkie Collins
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