Quotes About Authenticity

Vi?as ?st? dz?ve bija lomas, ko vi?a t?loja, vi?a jut?s dz?v?ka, kad iedvesa dz?v?bu savos t?los, n?s?ja tos sev?, kam?r pati dz?voja savu parasto dz?vi.

Es r?kojos k? man ir vislab?k. Un vislab?k ir b?t vienk?ršam. Pavisam, pavisam vienk?ršam. Un, kad vajag ko ?pašu, tam j?b?t pavisam, pavisam ?pašam.

the naturalness of an animal

this place is full of shit. It's run by aliens from outer space. Sure, they make the food look Italian, they make it smell Italian, but it tastes like goo from Mars.

Para todo el mundo es más difícil vivir en la verdad que en la mentira.

Aquellas obras exentas de alguna dosis de violencia me resultaban irreales (he preferido siempre que las novelas finjan lo real así como otros prefieren que finjan lo irreal) y la irrealidad suele aburrirme mortalmente.

como la idea de que reemplazar el vivir por el representar, hacer de la vida una espectadora de sí misma, implica un empobrecimiento de lo humano (proposición n.º 30).

What if after all these years you discover that behind your determined, disciplined mind, impervious to discouragement, behind the fortress admired and envied by others, you have a tender, timid, wounded, sentimental heart?

Sí, venía del país de los gauchos, pero no tenía nada de exótico ni de primitivo y su obra no alardeaba de color local.

Mi país, nuestros países, son, en un sentido profundo, más ficciones que realidades.

Living by principles is not living your own life. It is easier to try to be better than you are than to be who you are.

I can't stand lies. Probably no one can. Probably everyone is, to varying degrees, allergic to them, both spiritually and physically. Lies make me feel low and ignoble, and also itchy, like there's sand under my skin. The only thing that feels worse than hearing a lie is telling one.

In certain situations, you can't worry about how people will react. You just have to be as honest as you can and let what happens afterward happen.

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

suddenly I was a kid in the hall standing outside my locker about to head to Math. But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. That's when all the real things were said.

Somewhere in a woman's room there is always something, an object, a detail, that is her, wholly and unapologetic.

It is adorable and healthily childlike secretly to believe in fairy tales, but the instant one articulates such viewpoints to other people, one goes from darling to dumbo, from childlike to chillingly out of touch with reality.

You're mistaking love for perfection, I said. Real love when it's there? It's just there . It's a metal folding chair.

Because he was an asshole. I'm not sayin' nothin' I wouldn't say to his face. He embraced his assholeness.

Is she sad? she asked. No, honey. She's lived-in.

Mögest du für die Wahrheit kämpfen -, für deine eigene Wahrheit, nicht für die Wahrheit anderer

Vast fortunes did that to people. It took them to the cleaners, cruelly starched and steam-pressed them so all their raw edges, all the dirt and hunger and guileless laughter, were ironed out. Few survived real money.

Vais conhecer muitos idiotas na vida. Se te magoarem, lembra-te que é porque são estupidos. Assim, não vais reagir à sua crueldade, porque não há nada pior do que ser amargo e vingativo. mantem sempre a tua dignidade e sê verdadeira contigo mesma.

The notion that you can come to church on Sunday and bend your knee in worship when in fact you have not done so during the week is a delusion.