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  • All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it, that mirrors can only lie, that death by drowning is all that awaits one there. It is for this reason that love is so desperately sought and so cunningly avoided. Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

    "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.