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“To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with one’s own eyes, for example. One has no choice but to look at one’s reflection in the mirror. Through experience, we come to believe that the...” Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“The key to good description begins with clear seeing and ends with clear writing, the kind of writing that employs fresh images and simple vocabulary.” Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!” Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
“Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself.” Epictetus, Enchiridion
“Men sometimes didn’t bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn’t argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn’t.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“We all need someone to look at us.” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.” George Carlin, Napalm & Silly Putty

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