authenticity Quotes

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.