Andre Breton Quotes

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

If you are going to try and hide something, sooner or later people are going to find out.

You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.

God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of others and ourselves.

We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves

If there were a being in the world whose eyes could look into other people's hearts, very few men or women would be able to face up to it.

If your not honest with yourself, how the hell are you gonna be honest with me.

But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

Don't be fooled by your own wisdom

Depression, pain, and fear are gifts that say, "Sweetheart, take a look at your thinking in this moment. You're living in a story that isn't true for you." Living a lie is always stressful. And investigating a lie through The Work always leads you back to who you are. Who you are is not an option. You are love. It hurts to believe you're other than who you are, to live any story less than love.

But we are such deceivers that we will not look at ourselves in relationship, because there the real face can be seen. So we close our eyes to relationship, and we go on thinking that something is going to be seen inside. You cannot see anything inside.

When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.

You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.

Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

I really don't feel that any of the pieces I wrote were confessions; there are no revelations about secrets in my life, and actually I have nothing to confess and I certainly do not ask for redemption and there is no reward for confessing that I expect.

What do I really think? What do I believe in, without the horse manure?