He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? People were more often--he searched for a simile, found one in his work--torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought? Ray Bradbury
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When we look at a person and we see our own face and expressions, it is amazing how similar they are to ours. We can see them in the mirror and everyone else sees them in the same way. When we get together with other people, they all get to see our facial expressions and remind us of our own personality. In this quote by Virginia Woolf, she speaks of the fact that everyone sees us in a similar way and people often reflect each other’s innermost thoughts.

Source: Fahrenheit 451

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