Quotes About Authenticity

And the truth shall bear witness of itself. Edmond Bordeaux Szekely

Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth.

Nothing I did or said among the other boys came to me naturally. As a result, in every encounter, even the most glancing, I had to be a performer, for at all times I was aware I was impersonating a human being.

Jane Austen. Anyway, I'm not

If ever I said, in grief or pride,I tired of honest things, I lied.

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.

Learn to love blackness while there is yet time, blackness Unpatterned, blackness without horizons.

A person who publishes a book wilfully appears before the populace with his pants down. –

For men that are afraid to die Must warm their hands before a lie; The fire that's built of What is Known Will chill the marrow in the bone.

What should I be but just what I am?

You cannot live when you are untouchable. Life is vulnerability.

Es impresionante la fuerza que ejerce en nosotros la sugestión. Basta que una se se proponga ser lo más natural posible para que cada ademán y cada movimiento se carguen de artificios.

No, mi amor. Lo que pasa es cuando uno se hace el profundo parece inteligente, pero nada más.

No creo en el arte que no nace de la necesidad del hombre de abrir su corazón.

Beware the writer who always encloses the word "reality" in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you.

I try to think of a favorite among my arid-country flowers. But I love them all. How could we be true to one without being false to all the others?

Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful.

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

The shock of the real.