Quotes About Authenticity

Am I just a sufficiently complicated and randomized construct that I adequately simulate intelligence? Or am I just a mock-up?

What did it hurt me to be honest with her? To be vulnerable?

She was what she was. She did what she did. I didn't think she worried about the whys and wherefores too much, come to think of it.

Was this what having an identity felt like? Was this being someone? Feeling like there was a core of who you were beyond which you could not be altered?

The quaver in his voice was less showmanship than he would have wanted it to be.

Michelangelo Osiris Leary Kusanagi-Jones, Liar, was going to have to tell someone the truth.

It must be awkward wearing one's whole interior life on display, for anyone to read.

I didn't think too hard about anything, which, being me, was one of the most unnatural things I have ever done.

It is never about how good your voice is; it is only about feeling the urge to sing, and then having the courage to do it with the voice you are given.

So even though, to the outside world, Claire Willoughby was Simple Pleasures, Inc., Claire knew she was actually little more than window dressing for the business. Truth be told, she was so organizationally challenged, she couldn't arrange her own underwear drawer, let alone tell people how to arrange their lives.

Home-made, home-made! But aren't we all?

But they made me realize more than I ever had the rarity of true originality, and also the sort of alienation it might involve.

You are you and you are going to be YOU forever.

What you want is the whole of me—isn't it, isn't it? —and the whole of me isn't there for anybody. In that full sense you want me I don't exist.

Everything ungirt, artless, ardent, urgent about Louie was to the fore: all over herself she gave the impression of twisted stockings.

Honesty is nothing more than a party trick, and you know how much I love to dance.

There was no disguise for real love, she thought, and suddenly understood all that she did not have.

Freddie felt strongly that a natural appearance was only permissible, only really effective, it if was artificially produced.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Not all that is plain is dross

She had become an expert at wearing masks, so much so that sometimes it was difficult to find her true self beneath the layers:

No use wishing to be like other folks,' the maid said shrewdly. 'You have to learn to live at peace within your own skin.

It's been my experience," he continued, "that when you're with the right people, you feel more like yourself than ever. There's a happiness, and a feeling of coming alive to yourself and the other person, that's like nothing else.