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The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.

I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.

A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

Speech is the mirror of the soul.