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>>>>At some point in our life, one does not want to look at yourself in the mirror - morning, afternoon, or night; regardless of in which manner he/she behaves :)
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>>>But I have to, sometimes. Nobody else will wink at me.
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>>>In other news, your sentence is a perfect example of the jumble created in english by the lack of reflective pronoun (sebe/se, себя, sich, maga - almost all other languages have one), So... in OUR life, ONE (which one?) wants to look at YOU! Wow... In any other language this is simple.
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>>I should have written 'himself/herself' instead of 'yourself.' In Spanish I would have to use the same grammar construct since they don't have 'sebia' either. And in French the same. So maybe only Slavic languages are so perfect :)
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>Now you classify our (as in German "our"!) wonderful guttural grunting&gnashing language as slavic... ;-)

I didn't know German is one of the Slavic languages :)
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
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