“You don't need me. What you really need is a mirror. Because any stranger is for you simply a mirror in which to reflect yourself. I don't ever again want to return to such a desert of mirrors.”

Source: The Face of Another

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Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor 1924–1993

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