This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.
Terry PratchettWhy on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?”
“It's purely a defensive device. We seldom quarrel, and this is one of the reasons. Can you imagine yourself getting all worked up and contorted and illogical and then coming face to face with yourself, looking at yourself exactly as you look to everyone else?
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Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for its manipulability in the way we might with actual people. It’s all one big endless loop. We like the mirror and the mirror likes us. To friend a person is merely to include the person in our private hall of flattering mirrors.
Jonathan FranzenTags: love technology narcissism mirrors
Mirrors are perpetually deceitful. They lie and steal your true self. They reveal only what your mind believes it sees
Dee RemyTags: lies vision mind self-image deceit mirrors self-confrontation
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?
Jean-Paul SartreTags: friends society flesh mirrors naked
If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.
Criss JamiTags: reality practice self-esteem confidence self winning enemies opposition sports fighting achievement competition striving training searching pressure improvement enemies-and-opposition mirrors athletics rivals academics struggling athletes scrambling practicing
Jews put black over mirrors during times os mourning so they wouldn't think about themselves. But I never did look in mirrors anyway, because I disliked myself. No, wait. I disliked my appearance.
Nancy WerlinTags: self-image appearance mirrors black-mirror
Like most good looking women, she was never sure of her beauty, and had to keep checking on it, to make sure it was still there.
Josephine HumphreysThe longer I do my job ... the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.
John GreenTags: humans mirrors show how-we-feel how-we-look
She stayed beside me until I slept, waveringly, brilliantly, hooded in diaphanous scarlet, and occasionally she left an imperative written in lipstick on my dusty windowpane. BE AMOROUS! she exhorted one night and, another night, BE MYSTERIOUS! Some nights later, she scribbled: WHEN YOU BEGIN TO THINK, YOU LOSE THE POINT.
Angela CarterTags: dreams desire mysterious lipstick mirrors amorous messages
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