“Because, in order to behold yourself, you must for a moment halt life within you. Excuse me, but seeing that you go to the photographer’s so often——when the photographer, in front of you with his camera, tells you to be sure not to move, you must have noticed—life is suspended in you—and you feel that such suspension cannot last more than a second——it is like turning into a statue—For life is constant motion, and one can never really see one’s self.”
