“He saw himself reflected in other people's faces, and the horror and the pity he saw there had never ceased to wound him.”

— Douglas Reeman

For My Country's Freedom, Cap 5 "Indomitable"

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British author 1924–2017

Irving Layton (1912–2006) Romanian-born Canadian poet

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The Whole Bloody Bird (1969)

“[Nelson, about Harry] "I saw him, eventually," Nelson says, "as a loser, who never found his niche and floated along on Mom's money, which was money her father made. […] But being a loser wasn't the way my father saw himself. He saw himself as a winner, and until I was twelve or so I saw him the same way."”

John Updike book Rabbit Remembered

Rabbit Remembered (2000)

“Toad saw that he was trapped. They understood him, they saw through him, they had got ahead of him. His pleasant dream was shattered.”

Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows

Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 12

“Golikov was a perfect choice. While he himself likely saw Stalin as a guardian angel, Stalin surely saw in him an individual on whom he could rely completely.”

Filipp Golikov (1900–1980) Soviet general

David E. Murphy

“Villari took no notice of them because the idea of a coincidence between art and reality was alien to him. Unlike people who read novels, he never saw himself as a character in a work of art.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

"The Waiting" translated by James E. Irby (1959)

“He never had a doubt that such gods were;
He looked within, and saw them mirrored there.”

George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator

The Legend of Jubal (1869)
Context: When Cain was driven from Jehovah's land
He wandered eastward, seeking some far strand
Ruled by kind gods who asked no offerings
Save pure field-fruits, as aromatic things,
To feed the subtler sense of frames divine
That lived on fragrance for their food and [wine]]:
Wild joyous gods, who winked at faults and folly,
And could be pitiful and melancholy.
He never had a doubt that such gods were;
He looked within, and saw them mirrored there.