“Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.”
As quoted in Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003) by Azar Nafisi
Original: La sincerità viene spesso scambiata per arroganza, ma nella sua forma più pura è una virtù di trasparenza.
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“Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.”
As quoted in Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003) by Azar Nafisi
“Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.”
“Transparent people always stand out: they are terribly sincere.”
Original: (it) Le persone trasparenti si distinguono sempre: sono terribilmente sincere.
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“In a world of false appearances, be rare: transparent, honest, true and sincere.”
Original: In un mondo di false apparenze, siate rari: trasparenti, onesti, veri e sinceri.
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“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
From an April 13, 1942 letter to poet Joë Bousquet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%AB_Bousquet, published in their collected correspondence (Correspondance [Lausanne: Editions l'Age d'Homme, 1982], p. 18).
Original: L’attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité. https://books.google.com/books?id=BxpMAAAAMAAJ&q=%22L%E2%80%99attention+est+la+forme+la+plus+rare+et+la+plus+pure+de+la+g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rosit%C3%A9%22&dq=%22L%E2%80%99attention+est+la+forme+la+plus+rare+et+la+plus+pure+de+la+g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rosit%C3%A9%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiD6K24mfvLAhUGax4KHW4HAjkQ6AEIPjAF
“Is sincerity a virtue by itself? A serial killer has also acted sincerely.”
Oluşmak (To Become) Aphorisms (Pan Publishing House, Istanbul, 2011)
“Modesty is oftner mistaken than any other Virtue.”
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections
“The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.”
As quoted in Hitchcock (1967) by François Truffaut