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Quote by Paulo Coelho
English (Source)
- Two firefighters go into the forest to put out a small fire. When they are done, they go to a small stream. One of them has a face full of soot, but the other is spotlessly clean... which one will wash his face? - This is a stupid question: obviously the one whose face is full of soot. - You are wrong: the one with the sooty face looks at his companion and thinks that he is just like the other. And vice versa: the one whose face is clean sees that his companion is full of age and says to himself: I must be that dirty too, I have to wash myself. - What do you mean by that? - I want to say that in the hospital I understood that I was always looking for myself in the women I loved. I looked at their clean, beautiful faces and saw myself reflected in them. But they also looked at me and saw that my face was sooty, and as smart and confident as they were, they also saw themselves reflected in me and thought themselves worse than they were.