Quotes About Authenticity

There is not in me what you are looking for... Why deceive ourselves?

Her clothes, her figure, the expression of her face, the sound of her voice--all these said to him: 'Not the real thing. Everything you lived by and still live by is a lie, a deception that blinds you from the reality of life and death.

The one thing necessary in life, as in art is to tell the truth.

There was in her the glow of the real diamond among glass imitations.

It was as though her nature were so brimming over with something that against her will it showed itself now in the flash of her eyes, and now in her smile. Deliberately she shrouded the light in her eyes, but it shone against her will in the faintly perceptible smile.

But there was a second kind of people, the real ones, to which they all belonged, for whom the main thing was to be elegant, beautiful, generous, bold, and gay, to give way unblushingly to every passion and to laugh at everything else.

on which side is truth,—on the side of the thoughts which seem true and well-founded, or on the side of the lives of others and myself?

Tudo aquilo de que viveste e de que vives é uma mentira, um embuste, que oculta de ti a vida e a morte

if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be...

It is very difficult to tell the truth, and young people are rarely capable of it. His

I have often remarked that it is hardest of all to live with people who are untruthful and insincere. I can endure anything except that.

I am certain, too, that such a soul, such a heart and principles, as are hers are not to be found elsewhere in the world of the present day." (I do not know whence he had derived the habit of saying that few good things were discoverable in the world of the present day, but at all events he loved to repeat the expression, and it somehow suited him.)

there is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth.

En la "tierra", precisamente ne esta tierra —digo señalando la campiña— no existe la verdad, todo es mal y mentira

It's a bad sort of young lady who's only alive when she's being admired, and as soon as she's alone lets herself go altogether and finds no charm in anything - who's all for show, and nothing for herself.

I don't want to play at life" I said, "But to live.

I don't think anything," she said, "but I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be….

The difference between what he had been then and what he now was, was enormous...Then he was free and fearless...now he felt himself caught in the meshes of a stupid, empty, valueless, frivolous life...He remembered how proud he was at one time of his straightforwardness, how he had made a rule of always speaking the truth...and he was now sunk deep in lies...lies considered as truth by all who surrounded him.

Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

I told the truth, I didn't come to fool you

It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple

Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you're tired. You look like you could go on forever.