Quotes About Authenticity

Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.

I prefer nothing, unless it is true.

The man who has no self-respect, on the contrary, will imitate anybody and anything; sounds of nature and cries of animals alike; his whole performance will be imitation of gesture and voice.

I am speaking like a book, but I believe that what I am saying is true.

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I would rather die having spoken after my manner, than speak in your manner and live.

In my opinion it's preferable for me to be a musician with an out-of-tune lyre or a choir-leader with a cacophonous choir, and it's preferable for almost everyone in the world to find my beliefs misguided and wrong, rather than for just one person - me - to contradict and clash with myself.

We should rather say that he is a friend who is, as well as seems, good; and that he who seems only, and is not good, only seems to be and is not a friend; and of an enemy the same may be said.

No matter at all, I replied; for the point is not who said the words, but whether they are true or not.

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But a man whose actions do not agree with his words is an annoyance to me; and the better he speaks the more I hate him, and then I seem to be a hater of discourse.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

Beauty is the splendour of truth

But I'd rather help than watch. I'd rather have a heart than a mind. I'd rather expose too much than too little. I'd rather say hello to strangers than be afraid of them. I would rather know all this about myself than have more money than I need. I'd rather have something to love than a way to impress you.

There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.

I'm Lush Rimbaud, and I refuse to shut up or die.

Real problems sooner or later are resolved; on the contrary, pseudoproblems are not.

Het lijkt me overbodig hieraan toe te voegen dat geen enkel feit verzonnen is.

He spoke grudgingly about his exploits. He did not belong to that species of persons who do things in order to talk about them (like me).

It is easier to be blind than to pretend you're not blind.

No disagreement either from those of us who delight in American deep-dish pies and French tartes and prize the difference, who long for "authentic" foods, however vague we may be on what we mean by "authenticity." In the perceptive words of a great French chef, we eat more myths than calories. We eat, in sum, with our imagination.

Don't you hate that? Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable? That's when you know you've found somebody special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence.

Let us be moved, you and I, by the things themselves. Let us discover each other.

Every woman knows there are only two kinds of men: those who feel and those who pretend. Always remember, my dear, though only the former can be loved, only the latter can be trusted. It is passion that blackens eyes, not calculation.