The rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall

   I have rarely lost sight of myself; I have detested and adored myself — and so, we have grown old together.

-Paul Valéry, Selected Writings of Paul Valéry
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Title: Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks

The most mysterious of domains

   We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

   -Carson McCullers

     Image: Georg Bartisch, Ophthalmodouleia (1583)

               Title: Paul Eluard