Quotes About Authenticity

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it.

The least veracious man will tell truly the color of his coat, the hour of his dinner, the materials of his shoes.

Sound men are sound from the first.

The world knows what you seem; it does not know what you are.

Donot imitate others because it damages your personality.

A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in, he always knows what he must say and do. He may fall, but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his cause.

I think you've got to be truthful about the life you have. Otherwise, there's no possibility of achieving the life you want.

An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.

The roles that we construct are constructed because we feel that they will help us to survive and also, of course, because they fulfill something in our personalities; and one does not, therefore, cease playing a role simply because one has begun to understand it.... The world tends to trap you in the role you play and it is always extremely hard to maintain a watchful, mocking distance between oneself as one appears to be and oneself as one actually is.

These days even reality has to look artificial.

Love which economizes is never true love.

Mi-e scârb? s?-mi prostituez propriile mele emo?ii în public ?i nimic din ceea ce mi se întâmpl? nu va fi cunoscut vreodat?.

The provinces are provinces; they are only ridiculous when they mimic Paris.

The most natural feelings are those we are least willing to confess.

I comfort myself with the thought that rather than live a life with a fraudulent smile, it is better to lead a life weeping real tears.

Everything in my life revolves around people playing at being something.

I guess you just lacked the courage, the guts to strike out on your own. And so when it all came to an end, you were still living that way, a life you never meant to be anything more than a stopgap, filling in for the real thing.

I'm talking about the lie that says you have to live a proper life, or else you'll be ruined. I worked so hard to be respectable, because I was afraid of what would happen.

I wanted to strip and dance naked in front of them, because maybe then I could have demolished the fake, slimy atmosphere they had created.

Everything in my life revolves around people playing at being something. But that's only because we have to be that way in order to get on with our lives. Just because people are playing doesn't mean their hearts aren't in it.

Just being myself made me terribly sad.

There are no rules here, except that you have to sit properly at the bar when you drink. People can tell me anything they want. Things they wouldn't usually say, things that wouldn't be acceptable at work—it doesn't matter. That's what this place is for, after all: they come and pay money to buy themselves, their innermost hearts, a bit of freedom." She

I know just how slimy people can be, and how people like that are during the daytime. They don't get slimy at night because they're drunk, they get slimy because they're already slimy to begin with. I