"People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?"
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"The new is always made up of the old, or rather, what people see in the new is always the old thing. The rear-view mirror. The future of the future is the present, and this is something that people are terrified of."
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"Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves."
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"A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself."
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"We can't find the truth listening to our own voice's echo. We can find ourselves only in someone's mirror"
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"I had this whole Slim Shady concept of being two different people, having two different sides of me. One of them I was trying to let go, and I looked at the mirror and smashed it. That was the whole intro of the Slim Shady EP. Slim Shady was coming to haunt me."
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"Young, dumb, lookin' in the mirror tryin' to figure out who I’m gonna be this year."
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"Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo."
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"The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand."
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"We discover that we do not know our role; we look for a mirror; we want to remove our make-up and take off what is false and real. But somewhere a piece of disguise that we forgot still sticks to us. A trace of exaggeration remains in our eyebrows; we do not notice that the corners of our mouth are bent. And so we walk around, a mockery and a mere half: neither having achieved being nor actors."
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"They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurerance of our identities? I tell you, my dear, Narcissus was so egotist...he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the beautiful comrade, the only inseparatable love...poor Narcissus, possibly the only human who was ever honest on this point."
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"I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentally walk through into another dimension."
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"Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes 'fast' like a watch - sometimes."
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"With everything happening today, You dont know whether you're coming or going, But you think that you're on your way, Life lined up on the mirror dont blow it."
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"Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight."
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"The visible is always a mirror of the invisible. The reality is imagined before it manifests itself."
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"I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me."
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"The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind."
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"Don't see yourself as a body of clay; See yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty."
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"The pure heart is a spotless mirror in which images of infinite beauty are reflected."
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