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It seems to me you lived your life
Like a Candle in the Wind. Elton John & Bernie Taupin, Candle in the Wind, 1973
We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles. Thomas A Edison
Have you fork handles [four candles]? The Two Ronnies, Hardware Shop sketch
Here burns my candle out – ay, here it dies. William Shakespeare, Richard Duke of York II vi 1, Clifford soliloquy
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes Awww! Jack Kerouac
The candle by which she had been reading the book filled with trouble and deceit, sorrow and evil, flared up with a brighter light, illuminating for her everything that before had been enshrouded in darkness, flickered, grew dim, and went out for ever. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends –
It gives a lovely light. Edna St Vincent Millay, A Few Figs From Thistles, 1920
If I get frustrated or irritated or angry I come up here I and just smell all my candles. The Office US s4e13: Dinner Party, Karen, NBC 2007
Candles are the number one fastest growing product in the centre of the market. Two billion dollar a year industry. And for only ten thousand dollars you could become a co-owner of Serenity by Jan. ibid. Michael to Jim & Andy