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Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo react to not receiving a trophy after winning La Liga with Real Madrid on May 21st, 2017.

“I was doing very badly in school, and I just couldn’t remember what the teachers were talking about. I felt like it looked easier for everyone else and it was harder for me. It affected my self-worth.”

“Like, when I saw Dumbo and The Elephant Man — I felt like those films were smashing down some wall inside of me and creating a room called empathy. And being very grateful for having seen those films even though they were painful, and the idea of watching them again was scary, because I didn’t know that I wanted to feel those things again, but it did feel different after seeing them. Like they had exposed some part of myself to me that I didn’t know was there.”

      “No!” said he, “I put it to the touch once, and I lost it all. Let her go, — with her stony heart, and her beauty; — how set and terrible her look is now, for all her loveliness of feature! She is afraid I shall speak what will require some stern repression. Let her go. Beauty and heiress as she may be, she will find it hard to meet with a truer heart than mine. Let her go!”      And there was no tone of regret, or emotion of any kind in the voice with which he said good-bye; and the offered hand was taken with a resolute calmness, and dropped as carelessly as if it had been a dead and withered flower.

                                                               Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy

Portrait of the English artist John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)

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Emma Stone attends the Premiere of “Irrational Man” during the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival on May 15, 2015 in Cannes, France

Emma Stone attends the Premiere of “Irrational Man” during the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival on May 15, 2015 in Cannes, France

Natalie Portman for The Hollywood Reporter magazine (2015)

breakfast by louveciennes on Flickr.

Ophelia, detail (1852) John Everett Millais