comparatives

 “I am what I am. I know of no others like me; though why should I be the only one? Perhaps there are others, many others: I simply don’t know of them yet. So I live and die and live again, and learn nothing—” the word was bitterly pronounced,  “– of myself. Understand? You know what you are because you see others like you. If you were alone on earth, what would you know? What the mirror told you, that’s all. The rest would be myth and conjecture.”