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Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another’s.
Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825) German writer, art historian, philosopher, littérateur [Johann Paul Friedrich Richter; pseud. Jean Paul] Titan: A Romance, Jubilee 28, cycle 110 (1803) [tr. Brooks (1864)]
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Alternate translation: "A man never reveals his character more vividly than when portraying the character of another."
Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another’s.
Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825) German writer, art historian, philosopher, littérateur [Johann Paul Friedrich Richter; pseud. Jean Paul] Titan, “Twenty-Eighth Jubilee” (1800-03)
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) English modernist writer [b. Adeline Virginia Stephen]
“The Leaning Tower,” Lecture, Workers’ Educational Association, Brighton (May 1940)