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Maybe we look into mirrors not merely to seek beauty, regardless how illusive, but to make sure, despite the facts, that we are still here. That the hunted body we move in has not yet been annihilated, scraped out.
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“Sometimes, all you have to do is shift your perspective to see someone else’s truth.”
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“Who knows why people are different? We are born with a certain nature, I think. And then the world takes its swings at us.”
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Emily Dickinson
“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
Emily Dickinson

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