authenticity Quotes

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.