… is from page 45 of the 1995 Library of America edition of the great Zora Neale Hurston‘s 1942 autobiography, Dust Tracks On A Road:
There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle.
It’s a shame that Hurston is now largely forgotten. But see, for example, this fine essay on her (and some other great individualists) by David Beito.
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