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is self-secure. Anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that one is living against one's own truth.

As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is 'AUTHENTICITY'. Charlie Chaplin

is living out from out of the future and also living from out of the past. For those living authentically, the present takes care of itself.

Those who act authentically live from out of the future and also can live from out of the past... the present takes care of itself. Time constitutes the whole of my Dasein and also defines my own being at every moment. (heidegger struggle 169)

is a prerequisite for love. Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.

Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love. Martin Buber

is that which (wrongly) tends to be produced by removing objects and customs from their situation.

Like museums, anthropological ethnography is a form of culture collecting, the authenticity of which 'is produced by removing objects and customs from their current historical situation' (Clifford 1988:228 in Handelman 1994:355)

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is that which the writer should aim at. Never originality.

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. W. H. Auden

is wrongheadedly produced in museums by removing objects from their situations.

Like museums, anthropological ethnography is a form of culture collecting, the authenticity of which 'is produced by removing objects sand customs from their current historical situation' (Clifford 1988:228 in Handelman 1994:355)

Vulgarity is born when authenticity is lost. Authenticity is lost when we search for it.

 draws us more than 'goodness'. We like people who are real more than those who hide their true selves under layers of artificial niceties

We think sometimes we're only drawn to the good, but we're actually drawn to the authentic. We like people who are real more than those who hide their true selves under layers of artificial niceties

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