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"Perhaps it is impossible to understand one's own face. Or perhaps it is because I am a single man? People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends. I have no friends. Is that why my flesh is so naked? You might say-yes you might say, nature without humanity."

~Nausea, Jean Paul Sartre  
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