What you perceive in a stranger is exclusively what you see in you
Strangers are among the clearest mirrors through which one can come to know the way they see themself.
Place the same words before a hundred pairs of eyes, for example, a stranger's profile, when ninety-nine perceive depth, profundity, poetry, one may look upon those very same words and find only shallowness, only flaws to expose, only something to condemn.
It is tempting for them to believe that… (edited) read more