Quotes About Authenticity

there is more beauty in a harsh truth than in a pretty lie, more poetry in earthiness than in all the salons of Paris.

I wanted the figures to be real and believable so that you would feel that with their very next breath would begin life itself.

For a wise man, I have been told, once said, 'Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate in empty phrases.' But alas, my lady, I am but a mass of empty phrases, it would seem.

Only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed

Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases.

Don't you think my interest can be real, even granted that it is professional, too?" "No, I don't.

sólo una mentira que no estuviera avergonzada de sí misma podía tener éxito. También dijo que nada tenía que ser cierto, pero que todo tenía que sonar como si lo fuese.

La gratitud es mejor y más eficaz cuando no se evapora en frases vacías.

solo una mentira que no se avergonzara de sí misma conseguiría tener éxito.

I can no longer be fooled by paint and perfume.

Listen, I will now tell you the truth and there is no other.

How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.

She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through the fields with Pedro Tercero, was she smiling and happy. Her mother said that that was the real Blanca, and that the other one, the one back in the city, was a Blanca in hibernation.

Nothing strong can be built on a foundation of lies and omissions.

I stopped examining myself in the mirror to compare myself to the perfect beauties of movies and magazines; I decided I was beautiful-- for the simple reason that I wanted to be. And then never gave the matter a second thought. -Eva Luna

write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.

It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.

Entonces dejé de examinarme en el espejo para compararme con las mujeres perfectas del cine y las revistas y decidí que era bella por la simple razón de que tenía ganas de serlo.

Esos desaires no me quitan el sueño: no tengo que agradar a todo el mundo, sólo a quienes en verdad me importan, que no son muchos.

Pregúntate qué sientes y qué te niegas a sentir.

More than by upper-class señoritas, with their long legs and blond manes, I've been impressed by the women of the people: mature, strong, hard-working, earthy.

Tengo cincuenta versiones de cómo empezó nuestro amor y todas son ciertas.

Con Ichimei descubrió las múltiples sutilezas del amor y del placer, desde la pasión desenfrenada y urgente, hasta esos momentos sagrados en que la emoción los elevaba y se quedaban inmóviles, tendidos frente a frente en la cama, mirándose a los ojos largamente, agradecidos de su suerte, humildes por haber tocado lo más hondo de sus almas, purificados por haberse desprendido de todo artificio y yacer juntos totalmente

Quería ser aceptada sin nada que ocultar o fingir, conocer al otro profundamente y aceptarlo de la misma manera. Quería alguien con quien pasar la mañana del domingo en la cama leyendo los periódicos, a quien tomarle la mano en el cine, con quien reírse de tonterías y discutir ideas.