Charles Dickens Quotes, Mirrors Quotes, Shadow Quotes

Surely there had been no figure leaning on the back of his chair; no face looking over it. It is certain that no gliding footstep touched the floor, as he lifted up his head, with a start, and spoke. And yet there was no mirror in the room on whose surface his own form could have cast its shadow for a moment; and, Something had passed darkly and gone!

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O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.

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All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

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The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.

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Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

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Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.

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I have this complicated procedure I go through every morning, which is to look in the mirror and decide what I'm going to do. And I feel at that point, everybody's had their say.

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Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.

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The mirror crack'd from side to side "The curse has come upon me," cried The Lady of Shalott

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While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.

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For our improvement we need a mirror.

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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.

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And it is very much lamented,... That you have no such mirrors as will turn Your hidden worthiness into your eye That you might see your shadow.

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When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. Yet you know you exist and others like you, that this is a game with mirrors. It takes some strength of soul--and not just individual strength, but collective understanding--to resist this void, this nonbeing, into which are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard.

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Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.

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Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.

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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.

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It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

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For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error.

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Mind is a broken mirror.

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