Quotes about Authenticity
I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be.
— Milan Kundera
The moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies…
— Milan Kundera
The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic.
— Milan Kundera
But was it love? Was it simply the hysteria of a man who, aware deep down of his inaptitude for love, felt the self-deluding need to simulate it?
— Milan Kundera
Ä°nsan hiçbir ÅŸeyi, hiçbir kimseyi ciddiye alamay?nca yaÅŸamak ne kadar da hüzün verici!
— Milan Kundera
He took a look at the blond girl's eyes and knew that he must not take part in the rigged game in which the ephemeral passes for the eternal and the small for the big, that he must not take part in the rigged game called love.
— Milan Kundera
That's how love got lost ... when we started laying down rules for when love should or shouldn't appear.
— Paulo Coelho
Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and long conversations with people in the countryside.
— Paulo Coelho
Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
[Jesus] said that they will know we are Christians - not by our bumper stickers and T-shirts - but by our love.
— Shane Claiborne
What does not contain love must contain an illusion.
— Deepak Chopra
You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans.
— F Scott Fitzgerald