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'"You have a nice face," she said. "Especially your nose. You have a beautiful nose." [...] had never spent much time on my nose, had rather disparaged it than admired it, and I can't say that I found it particularly attractive, but that feature in the middle of my face was nevertheless changed forever."
Might be a coincidence but I smell a Pirandello reference.