To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors …

Margaret Atwood
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To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. She is living selflessly, she finds a hole in the stone wall and on the other side of the wall, a voice. The voice comes through darkness and has no face. This voice becomes her mirror. ✨ Margaret Atwood (1987). Selected Poems II: Poems Selected & New 1976-1986, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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