Quotes About Authenticity

Of course Your Excellency will deny this story," Hale blurted out. Zimmermann turned to him. "I cannot deny it," he replied glumly; "it is true."23

a man's a man for a' that." To the Scot, appearance and outward form mean little. Instead, it is the quality of one's inner self

Diogenes's goal, he said, was "to deface the coinage," meaning strip away the false conventions on which society was built and expose the raw reality underneath.

Even after the president's testimony that the telegram was genuine, newspaper editors and some senators simply refused to believe it.

Better a crust of black bread than a mountain of paper confections, Better a daisy in earth than a dahlia cut and gathered, Better a cowslip with root than a prize carnation without it

Het is mijn redding geweest dat ik mijn verdriet aan de buitenkant draag, waar het niemand kan ontgaan

A great thing he could never do, but he had longed to do a true thing, to imagine sincere and genuine pages.

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.

Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.

I stopped in the middle of that building and I saw — the sky. I saw the things that I love in this world. The work and the food and time time to sit and smoke. And I looked at the pen and said to myself, what the hell am I grabbing this for? Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am! Why can't I say that, Willy?

You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.

You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.

Acum,m? bucur de un frumos avantaj,acela c? pot s?-mi bat joc de vechile iubiri mincionase ÅŸi s? fac de ruÅŸine cuplurile acelea întemeiate pe minciun?--am v?zut iadul femeilor!încât îmi va fi îng?duit s? posed adev?rul într-un suflet ÅŸi într-un trup.

It seemed to him a thousand times worse to stand there as the only one unmasked amid a host of masks, than suddenly to stand naked among those fully dressed.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

It really doesn't bother me," she said. "I've always thought it stupid to try to hide your age, or to pretend to be younger than you are. Denying your age is like denying your life.

I have spent my whole life trying to preserve a certain idea of myself, and that is all. You have to cling to a set of values that do not depreciate with time. Everything else is the fashion of the moment, fleeting, mutable. In a word, nonsense.

Truth is in things, not in people, he remembered. But it needs us to be manifest.

Una de las ventajas que los animales poseemos sobre los humanos es que nadie nos exige ser políticamente correctos.

Has conseguido lo que pocos consiguen en la vida: aparentar exactamente lo que eres, y que parezca que lo aparentas.

A 'no' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

There are only two types of people. Those who dance with their soul and others who move to the beats. I am not sure what rest of the world does!