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"But above all, in order to be, never try to seem."
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"Don't make changes to suit others, stay true to yourself."
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"If there's something I'm not good at, it's usually because I just organically despise it. I can't help that. I'm fabulous at too many other things to waste my time faking it."
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"Once you show someone your true colors it is impossible to paint over them."
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"Drop your masks and just be yourself."
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"A human should realize himself and be responsible for himself if he wants to become the true person he is to be."
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"Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to be accepted and liked; they do seem most guarded, but only by their own hands: as compared to the populace, they are naked."
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"The closer you come to your authentic self, the simpler everything becomes. Listen to your intuition. It will tell you who you are."
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"You were born to be real, not to be perfect."
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"Your life "behind the scenes" must correspond to your life "on stage." What you preach must correspond to how you live."
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"Be true to yourself to reveal your own unique beauties, feelings, and perceptions."
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"This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. (...) Forever I shall be a stranger to myself."
Philosophy
"To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today."
Freedom
"To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything."
Wisdom
"I couldn't quite understand how an ordinary man's good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man."
Judgment
"Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know."
Life
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself-so like a brother, really-I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate."
Emotion
"But as soon as a man, through lack of character, takes refuge in doctrine, as soon as crime reasons about itself, it multiplies like reason itself and assumes all the aspects of the syllogism. Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law."
Justice
"Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him."
Society
"...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I've seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble." "Obviously," I replied, "they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it." I, however, didn't want to be helped, and I hadn't time to work up interest for something that didn't interest me."
Belief
"It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore."
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