Quotes About Authenticity

En mi todos los afectos se muestran en la superficie, pero con sinceridad. Siempre he sido actor, y en serio. Siempre que he amado, he fingido que he amado, y lo finjo para mí mismo.

The sincerity of intellectual affirmation has nothing to do with the naturalness of spontaneous emotion.

Caut s? m? dezbar de ceea ce am înv??at, Caut s? uit felul de a-mi aminti cu care am fost înv??at, S? r?zuiesc cerneala cu care mi-au fost mânjite simÅ£urile, S? scot din l?zi adev?ratele mele emoÅ£ii, S? m? despachetez ÅŸi s? fiu eu.

Kendimi bildim bileli, kendine verdiÄŸi sözlere sad?k kalmam??, dalgac? bir hayalciyimdir ben. Bir baÅŸkas? olarak, bir yabanc? olarak, olduÄŸumu sand???m ÅŸeyin beklenmedik seyircisi olarak, düÅŸlerimin yata??ndan taÅŸmas?n?n keyfini ç?karmaya bakt?m hep.

Most men spontaneously live a fictitious, alien life. Most people are other people, said Oscar Wilde, and he was quite right.

Vive tu vida y no seas vivido por ella. Tanto en la verdad como en el error, tanto en el gozo como en el malestar, sé tu propio ser.

Only those who are unable to think what they feel obey grammatical rules.

We squander our personalities in orgies of coexistence.

I always find it hard to admit that anything done collectively can possibly be sincere, since the only truly sentient being is the individual).

How many things that we consider right or true are merely the vestiges of our dreams, the sleepwalking figures of our incomprehension! Does anyone know what's right or true? How many things we consider beautiful are merely the fashion of the day, the fiction of their time and place! How many things we consider ours are utterly foreign to our blood, we being merely their perfect mirrors or transparent wrappers!

Every spoken word double-crosses us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.

Nothing grates more on me than the vocabulary of moral intent and social responsibility.

Everything is worth it, when your soul is not small

Pero no me engaño, escribo, sumo, y la escritura sigue, como hecha por un empleado cualquiera de esta casa.

BaÅŸkalar?n?n kiÅŸiliÄŸimizi istila etmelerinin de özellikle önüne geçmeliyiz. Ä°nsanlar?n bizimle herhangi bir ÅŸekilde ilgilenmesinde, eÅŸi görülmemiÅŸ bir hoyratl?k vard?r. Åžu s?radan 'Nas?ls?n?z?' laf?n? affedilmez bir kabal?k olmaktan ç?karan ÅŸey varsa, o da genellikle zaten içinin boÅŸ, samimiyetsiz olmas?d?r.

To pretend is to know oneself.

Be pure, not in order to be noble or strong, but to be yourself.

Artificiality is the best way to enjoy what's natural. Whatever I've enjoyed in these vast fields I've enjoyed because I don't live here. One who has never lived under constraints doesn't know what freedom is.

Diktaren är en låtsare. / Han låtsas så fullständigt / att han till och med låtsas ha ont / av de smärtor han verkligen känner.

You've never heard the wind blow. The wind only speaks of the wind. What you heard was a lie, And the lie is in you.

O que devera humilhar-me é a minha bandeira, que desfraldo; e o riso com que deveria rir de mim, é um clarim com que saúdo e gero uma alvorada em que me faço.

Abdicate from life in order not to abdicate from yourself.

Încep s? m? cunosc.Eu nu exist. Sunt intervalul dintre ceea ce doresc s? fiu ÅŸi ceea ce au f?cut alÅ£ii din mine, Sau jum?tatea acestui interval,c?ci mai exist? ÅŸi via??... Asta sunt,în sfârÅŸit... Stinge lumina,închide uÅŸa,f? cumva s? nu se mai aud? târâÅŸitul papucilor pe coridor, S? pot r?mâne singur în camer? ÅŸi s?-mi tihneasc? bine de mine însumi. E un univers ieftin.

I do not even know whether I am the one living it or if my life is living me (if we allow that empty word 'live' to mean whatever it wants to), and I should not really swear to anything at all.