“One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.”
Source: The Amulet of Samarkand
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“Behaviour is a mirror in which everyone shows his image.”
Maxim 39, trans. Stopp
Variant translation: A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
Maxims and Reflections (1833)

Card I : The Magician http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/sot/sot02.htm
The Symbolism of the Tarot (1913)
Context: I Saw the Man.
His figure reached from earth to heaven and was clad in a purple mantle. He stood deep in foliage and flowers and his head, on which was the head-band of an initiate, seemed to disappear mysteriously in infinity.
Before him on a cube-shaped altar were four symbols of magic — the sceptre, the cup, the sword and the pentacle.
His right hand pointed to heaven, his left to earth. Under his mantle he wore a white tunic girded with a serpent swallowing its tail.
His face was luminous and serene, and, when his eyes met mine, I felt that he saw most intimate recesses of my soul. I saw myself reflected in him as in a mirror and in his eyes I seemed to look upon myself.
And I heard a voice saying:
—"Look, this is the Great Magician!

Paris 1923
As quoted in Futurism, ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 311
Quotes, 1920's

“Peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.”
"Love after Love"
"A Far Cry from Africa" (1962), Collected Poems, 1948-1984 (1986)

“Just one thing in it:
Me or him.
Just one thing in it:
Me or him.
And I love life!”
Song lyrics, The Dreaming (1982)

“I became intent on saving him through showing him that he was loved.”
Source: Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958

Source: For The Sake of Heaven (1945), p. 45