We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.
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We resemble ourselves.
Man is, so to speak, an endless and infinitely varied repetition: and if we know what one man feels, we so far know what a thousand feel in the sanctuary of their being. Our feeling of general humanity is at once an aggregate of a thousand different truths, and it is also the same truth a thousand times told.
We are what we repeatedly do.
We are what we repeatedly do.
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View PlansEach one of us finds in others the very faults others find in us
Analogy pervades all our thinking,
We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
We are all part of the same rainbow. We are all reflections of each other. As unique and diverse as we are in character and skills, the source of all creation is as multidimensional as we are.
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow you reap. What you give you get. What you see in others exists in you.
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.
Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone else has been so caught up and so pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before.
Then we learn our trade, well or less well, and we tell our two or three stories - each time in a new disguise - maybe ten times, maybe a hundred, as long as people will listen.
All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
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