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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.

The thing about death is that it's honest.

In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.

The question of what it is to live an 'authentic life', that's a complicated one.

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.

I once wrote on my MySpace profile that music is never authentic. It was a reaction to constantly reading the word 'authentic' in connection with bands. But what does that mean? A baby crying after being pushed out of its mother's womb, now that's what I'd call authentic.

Almost everybody accepts that some people can be killed. 'The concept of 'brain death' - the belief that people on respirators can legitimately be killed - shows that.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.