Quotes About Authenticity

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

Perhaps one never seems so much at one's ease as when one has to play a part.

It is perfectly monstrous, he said, at last, the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

Los ingleses tienen 3 cosas de las que mostrarse orgullosos: El té, el whisky y un escritor como yo. Pero resulta que el té es chino; el whisky, escocés; y yo soy irlandés.

I don't want to earn a living, I want to live.

The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

Lo menos frecuente en este mundo es vivir. La mayoría de la gente existe, eso es todo.

Dale una máscara a un hombre y te dirá la verdad

the value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

Hoy en día la gente conoce el precio de todo y el valor de nada.

The only real people are the people who never existed, and if a novelist is base enough to go to life for his personages he should at least pretend that they are creations, and not boast of them as copies.

the moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist, and becomes a dull or an amusing craftsman, an honest or a dishonest tradesman. He has no further claim to be considered as an artist.

Cecily is the sweetest, dearest, prettiest girl in the whole world. And I don't care twopence about social possibilities.

But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely — or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

I have said to you that to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

To realise one's nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for.

Please, tell me the truth. The truth, who knows the truth? You've heart knows the truth.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.

Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

El único error imperdonable en el que incurren todas las personas verdaderamente buenas y que nunca pueden evitar es conversar de forma sincera

It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces a false impression.

But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely - or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.