Quotes About Authenticity

There is such a thing as robbing a story of its reality by trying to make it too true...

A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be.  That is his punishment.  Those who want a mask have to wear it.

What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

All imitation in morals and in life is wrong.  Through the streets of Jerusalem at the present day crawls one who is mad and carries a wooden cross on his shoulders.  He is a symbol of the lives that are marred by imitation. 

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

La verdad es una cosa muy dolorosa de oír y de manifestar

I have grown sick of shadows. You are more to me than all art can ever be.

Nunca des explicaciones, tus amigos no las necesitan y tus enemigos no las creen

Si yo hubiera leído todo esto en un libro, Henry, creo que me hubiera echado a llorar. Sin embargo, ahora que me ha ocurrido a mi realmente, parece demasiado asombroso para derramar lágrimas.

The aim of life is self-development. To realise one's nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self.

If you're going to tell people the truth, make them laugh.

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. When

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Truth, indeed, is a thing that is most painful to listen to and most painful to utter.

Sincerity is the last refuge of the shallow.

By? dobrym, to znaczy by? w harmonii z samym sob?. Dysonans to w tym przypadku przymus pozostania w harmonii z innymi.

It is tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man,' says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people.

The truth is rarely pure

But the world might guess it; and I will not bare my soul to their shallow, prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope. There is too much of myself in the thing, Harry--too much of myself!

Firewater brings out the real brownness of this buffalo.

Stand on your laigs you polecat, and admit you're a liar!

In a crass and materialistic world there must inevitably be a scattered few here and there in whom pumpkins touch no chord.

There is a deep power in words that speak the truth