"How
is it that expressions change? I have spent years looking at people's faces,
and it is still a mystery to me. A miniscule, immeasurable movement of an
eyebrow in relation to the eye and nose; a scarcely discernible tightening or
loosening of the muscles in cheek and neck; the barest tremor on the lips; a
shine in the eyes. But we know the eyes do not change; the most significant
manifestation of emotion is pure illusion. And this fractional shifting is all
that distinguishes contempt from respect, love from anger. Some people are
crude; their faces can be read by anyone. Some are more subtle, and only those
close to them can read the face correctly. Some are incomprehensible even
to themselves."
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