Mirrors Quotes
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I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.
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New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
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I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don't like what you see, then you've done something. If I'm standoffish, that's because you are.
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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.
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Its hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with
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I look in the mirror, my only opponent
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He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.
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The world is a mirror representing the divine life.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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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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Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.
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Close your eyes and look inside, A mirror shines within; To find where you are going, First see where you have been.
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We live in a house of mirrors and think we are looking out the windows.
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The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.
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How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?
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I never want to look in the mirror and say, 'What if? What if I had run harder? What if I had dived for that groundball?'
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Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.
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If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day.
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All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.
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Every idol, if you scratch it, is a mirror. We worship ourselves.
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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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We never saw our face in more timeless mirrors. But so, too, do we speak a language whose significance is incomprehensible to us ourselves — a language of which every syllable is both transitory and immortal. Symbols are signs, which nevertheless give us consciousness of our values. They are first of all projections of forms from a hidden dimension, then, too, searchlights through which we hurl our signals into the unknown in a language pleasing to the gods. And these mysterious conversations, this chain of miraculous efforts from which the core of our history exists, which is a history of the battles of men and gods – they are the only things which make learning worthwhile for humanity.
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Involved in my own entrails and a crust Turning a pitted surface towards a space, I am a world that watches through a sky And is persuaded by mirrors To regard its being as an external shell, One of a universe of stars and faces.
