Sincerely

• ““You’re sincere enough.” She laughed shortly. “Heaven protect the human race from the sincere idealist!””

• “Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial — notoriously less stable and less inherent than the natures of other things. And insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself is bullshit.”

• “To seek sincerity above all things is perhaps, at bottom, not to want to be transformed; it is to cling to yourself, to have a morbid love of yourself, just as you are, that is to say, false. It is to refuse release.”

• “[Rousseau], [t]he man who would be sincere is unconsciously insincere. This confirms the supposition I began with: that a contradiction exists between self-consciousness and sincerity. To be conscious of a self, vis-a-vis other selves, is already to expose that self to corruption.”

• “Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.”

• “The surest, as the shortest way, to make yourself beloved and honored, is to be, indeed, the very man you wish to appear.”

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Sincerely across IJR