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“It is with our faces that we face the world, from the moment of birth to the
moment of death. Our age and our gender are printed on our faces. Our
emotions, the open and instinctive emotions that Darwin wrote about, as well
as the hidden or repressed ones that Freud wrote about, are displayed on our
faces, along with our thoughts and intentions. Though we may admire arms and
legs, breasts and buttocks, it is the face, first and last, that is judged
“beautiful” in an aesthetic sense, “fine” or “distinguished” in a moral or
intellectual sense. And, crucially, it is by our faces that we can be recognized as
individuals. Our faces bear the stamp of our experiences and our character; at
forty, it is said, a man has the face he deserves.”
- Oliver Sacks, “Face-blind”, The New Yorker, August 30, 2010
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