" Why had God created man's face so that he might not see it himself?

'Suppose you could see your own face, would you lose your mind? Would you become incapable of acting?'

Most probably man had evolved in such a way that he could not see his own face. Maybe dragonflies and praying mantises could see their own faces. "

― , Other Voices, Other Vistas: Short Stories from Africa, China, India, Japan, and Latin America