Quotes About Authenticity

It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.

People don't talk to each other about real things because they're afraid of how they'll be judged. Or

As WILL embraces her, VIOLA's eyes flicker open (shielded by WILL from the audience) and the lovers look at each other for a moment as WILL and VIOLA rather than as 'ROMEO' and 'JULIET.' Their eyes are wet with tears.

Tant de lâcheté et de mensonge me font monter le cœur aux lèvres.

A book is the product of a different self from the self we manifest in our habits, in our social life, in our vices.

But certain favourite roles are played by us so often before the public and rehearsed so carefully when we are alone that we find it easier to refer to their fictitious testimony than to that of a reality which we have almost entirely forgotten.

We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the features of the person that we are and not of the person we should like to be.

With the girls, on the other hand, if the pleasure which I enjoyed was selfish, at least it was not based on the lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone and prevents us from admitting that, when we chat, it is no longer we who speak, that we are fashioning ourselves then in the likeness of other people and not of a self that differs from them.

those who produce works of genius are not those who spend their days in the most refined company...or whose culture is the broadest; they are those who have the ability to stop living for themselves and make a mirror of their personality, so that their lives, however nondescript they may be, are reflected in it.

he loved sincerity, but only as he might love a pimp who could keep him in touch with the daily life of his mistress.

When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.

And then I asked myself whether originality did indeed prove that great writers are gods, ruling each over a kingdom that is his alone, or whether there is not an element of sham in it all, whether the differences between one man's books and another's were not the result of their respective labours rather than the expression of a radical and essential difference between diverse personalities.

Assim trocamos palavras mentirosas. Mas uma verdade mais profunda do que a que diríamos se fôssemos sinceros pode às vezes ser expressa e anunciada por outro meio que não o da sinceridade.

When the successive hours of our life are thus displayed against too widely dissimilar backgrounds, we find that we give away too much of ourselves to all sorts of people who next day will not interest us in the least

Men who do their work intelligently and earnestly have an aversion to those who want to make literature out of what they do, to make it important.

When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance if catching someone's interest.

Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

For who knows not that Truth is strong..; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licencings to make her victorious.

I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot. As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can.

Let the flame of anger free you of all falsity.

May the expectation in other eyes Never decide how you are to be;

Beauty is a free spirit and will not be trapped within the grid of intentionality.

Love is also a force of light and nurture that liberates you to inhabit to the full your own difference. There should be no imitation of each other; no need to be defensive or protective in each other's presence. Love should encourage and free you fully into your full potential.

The beautiful can exist at the edge precisely because it has nothing to lose and everything to give away. FREDERICK TURNER OUR