"The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original."
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"A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road."
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"The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling... every crystal, every flower a window opening into heaven, a mirror reflecting the Creator."
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"Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service."
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"If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo."
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"Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related."
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"Mirror becomes a razor when it's broken. A stick becomes a flute when it's loved."
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"If the only vision we have of ourselves comes from the social mirror - from the current social paradigm and from the opinions, perceptions, and paradigms of the people around us - our view of ourselves is like the reflection in a crazy mirror room at the carnival."
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"I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it."
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"Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images."
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"When I look in the mirror, I am slightly reminded of self-portraits by Durer and by Rembrandt, because they both show a degree of introspection. I see some element of disappointment; I see a sense of humour, but also something that is faintly ridiculous; and I see somebody who is frightened of being found out and thought lightweight."
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"Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we're going through, not the cause of what we're going through."
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"The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all."
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"Look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself, what do I want to do everyday for the rest of my life. Do that!"
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"If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self."
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"Say it to them. Or say it to yourself in the mirror. Say it in a letter you'll never send or in a book millions might read someday. I think you deserve to look back on your life without a chorus of resounding voices saying 'I could've, but it's too late now.'"
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"Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are."
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"If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception."
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"I was looking in the mirror the other day and I realized I haven't changed much since I was in my twenties. The only difference is I look a whole lot older now."
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"Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image."
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