What did Margaret Atwood mean by: To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada Copy
+ Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Ignorance, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ You can’t help what you feel, but you can help how you behave Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Behave, Helping, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ I’ll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I’ll make you me. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Book, Lovers, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Hero, Overcoming, Scary, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Be Kind, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ They will not let you have peace, they don’t want you to have anything they don’t have themselves. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Peace, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ You might ‘write from the heart,’ but you’d better polish with your brain. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Brain, Heart, Writing, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Book, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you’ll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one’s self. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself. - Jean-Francois de La Harpe Playwright · France
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
