"The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves"
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"The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it."
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"The hood ornament on your car is for telling you where you're going. The rear-view-mirror is for showing you how good you look while you're getting there."
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"All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed."
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"Mind is a tool invented by the universe to see itself; but it can never see all of itself, for much the same reason that you can't see your own back (without mirrors)."
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"Maturity is when all of your mirrors turn into windows."
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"For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me."
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"Your life is a mirror. Life gives us not what we want. Life gives us who we are"
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"We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe."
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"Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and methodical in its work that you never realize it has stolen your youth until you look into the mirror one morning and see a man you don't recognize."
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"Books are the mirrors of the soul."
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"How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?"
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"In the depths of the mirror the evening landscape moved by, the mirror and the reflected figures like motion pictures superimposed one on the other. The figures and the background were unrelated, and yet the figures, transparent and intangible, and the background, dim in the gathering darkness, melted into a sort of symbolic world not of this world. Particularly when a light out in the mountains shone in the center of the girl's face, Shimamura felt his chest rise at the inexpressible beauty of it."
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"There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?"
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"You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive."
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"If you want to meet someone who can fix any situation you don't like, who can bring you happiness in spite of what other people say or believe, look in a mirror, then say this magic word: 'Hello.'"
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"Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror."
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"The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful."
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"Life is nothing but a mirror of your consistent thoughts."
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"I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see."
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