There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
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There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.
Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
Sentences are not as such either true or false.
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.
He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.
Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.
Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
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