Quotes about Authenticity

I gave up apologizing for myself a long time ago. What should I say? That I'm sorry to be that which I am?

It may even be that everybody starts out fairly unique only most people get over it. Come

She felt unpeeled and rather exposed. She felt almost improper.

She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.

I'd rather be at Wragby, where I can go about and be still, and not stare at anything or do any performing of any sort. This tourist performance of enjoying oneself is too hopelessly humiliating: it's such a failure.

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.

She felt different from the rest of them, with their hard, easy, shallow intimacy, that seemed to cost them so little.

How she hated words, always coming between her and life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases, sucking all the life-sap out of living things.

The final fact being that at the very bottom of his soul he was an outsider, and anti-social, and he accepted the fact inwardly, no matter how Bond-Streety he was on the outside. His isolation was a necessity to him; just as the appearance of conformity and mixing-in with the smart people was also a necessity.

Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.