Francois Truffaut Quotes

I think everybody has a secret life.

All of us are private to ourselves. Nobody ever really knows anybody else. Everybody in the world keeps something to themselves.

We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.

There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.

Outside of my home, I look like a very obedient, very serious, very good kind of girl, but nobody knows what happens inside the house.

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

Poems give you the lives of others and then circle in on your own inner world.

Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.

Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?

It’s lucky no one else knows what our most secret thoughts are. We’d all be seen for the cunning, self-aggrandizing fools we are.

I've always had this juxtaposition of characters, because I'm an artist. I'm a very quiet person at home and introspective and the whole deal, and then I can be really big later. I had no problem.

In the days of witchcraft it used to be believed that if one person secretly made a waxen image of another and stuck pins into the image, its counterpart would suffer tortures, and that if the image was melted the person would die. This superstition is almost realized in the relation between the private self and its social reflection. They seem to separate but are darkly united, and what is done to the one is done to the other.

We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.

When she walked through the woods (infrequently now) she picked her way along the path, making way for the boy inside to run along before her. It could be hard to choose the time outside over the time within. Almondine from The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.

There is no country but the heart.

Because I've taken my clothes off in public doesn't mean that I've revealed every inch of my soul.

The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover.

Some things are just for private. It's like people thinking I'm cold or this or that. It's unfortunate, but I don't need strangers to know that I'm warm. I don't need strangers to know the real me.

I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream.

Every arena of life intersects with what's going on in our hearts. Everything passes through on its way to wherever it's going. Everything.

Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay.

I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.

Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me.

The writing life is a secret life, wither we admit it or not.