Quotes About Authenticity

And what is it, thought I, after all! It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

It is not down on any map; true places never are.

The truth is lived, not taught.

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

Imagine the relief of finding out that one is not the one one thought one was

How do you have to live, I wondered, to be in harmony with what you honestly think?

Wenn wir schweigen, werden wir unangenehm, sagte Edgar, wenn wir reden, weden wir lächerlich. Herztier

Quando a gente é aquilo que finge ser, é castigada por isso, é como se fosse uma lei.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself lying to others is relatively an exception.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

They claim they're living the vita apostolica; but you didn't find the apostles feeling each other's bollocks.

There cannot be new things in England. There can be old things freshly presented or new things that pretend to be old.

As More says, it hardly makes a man a hero, to agree to stand and burn once he is chained to a stake. I have written books and I cannot unwrite them. I cannot unbelieve what I believe. I cannot unlive my life.

If your going to be ugly it is well to be whole-hearted about it, put some effort in. Georges turned heads.

In truth you cannot separate them, your public being and your private self.

Usually he is the soul of courtesy. But if you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?

He had thought that under their clothes people wore their skin.

Do you look like the photograph on your book jackets? Authors, I find, seldom do.

I am as I am and so will I be But how that I am, none knoweth truly Be it evil, be it well, be I bound, be I free, I am as I am and so will I be … … But how that is I leave to you. Judge as ye list, false or true Ye know no more than afore ye knew Yet I am as I am, whatever ensue.

People are like cities: We all have alleys and gardens and secret rooftops and places where daisies sprout between the sidewalk cracks, but most of the time all we let each other see is is a postcard glimpse of a skyline or a polished square. Love lets you find those hidden places in another person, even the ones they didn't know were there, even the ones they wouldn't have thought to call beautiful themselves.

The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.