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The mirror of all Christian kings.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Chorus, in Henry V, act 2, prologue, l. 6.
Praising Henry V as the model for all kings.)
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Speech is the mirror of the soul.
(Publilius Syrus (1st century B.C.), Roman writer of mimes. Sententiae, no. 1073.)
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A novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure skies at another the mire of the puddles at your feet. And the man who carries this mirror in his pack will be accused by you of being immoral! His mirror shews [sic] the mire, and you blame the mirror! Rather blame that high road upon which the puddle lies, still more the inspector of roads who allows the water to gather and the puddle to form.
(Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783-1842), French novelist. The Red and the Black, ch. XL, Levavasseur (1831), trans C.K. Scott-Moncrieff, 1943.)
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The world is the mirror of myself dying.
(Henry Miller (1891-1980), U.S. author. "Third or Fourth Day of Spring," Black Spring (1936).)
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Meanwhile Snow White held court,
rolling her china-blue doll eyes open and shut
and sometimes referring to her mirror
as women do.
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.")
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A pale self-portrait looked out of the mirror with the serious eyes of all self-portraits.
(Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), Russian-born U.S. novelist, poet. The Gift, ch. 3 (1963).)
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Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Second Selection, New York (1985).)
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The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
(Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian psychiatrist. repr. in Complete Works, vol. 12, eds. James Strachey and Anna Freud (1958). Recommendations to Physicians Practising Psycho-Analysis, sct. G (1912).
On the ideal practice of psychoanalysis.)
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Something is sticking out its tongue at me from the corner of my mirror.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eleventh Selection, New York (1993).)
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Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Twelfth Selection, New York (1993).)
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