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#1

“I studied psychology in school, and the best psychology is in literature. It's so much easier to understand a character than a theory. You can recognize yourself—or other people—in a different way.”
― Natalie Portman

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#2

“I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.”
― Natalie Portman

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#3

“Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off.”
― Natalie Portman

tags: fun, lying, sex

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#4

“Cute is when your personality shines through your looks. Like, when you see someone's personality in the way they walk and you just feel like hugging them every time you see them.”
― Natalie Portman

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#5

“Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.”
― Natalie Portman

tags: more-than-words

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#6

“I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.”
― Natalie Portman

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#7

“I think it's a great honor to win an Oscar but I think if you aim to be rewarded in your life you'll get nowhere. I think that the biggest reward is the work itself and what you get out of it and the connections you make with other people.”
― Natalie Portman

tags: oscars, rewards

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#8

“When you get older, you realize it's a lot less about your place in the world but your place in you. It's not how everyone views you, but how you view yourself.”
― Natalie Portman

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#9

“They tell me: 'OK, this is where we're going to push up your cleavage,' and I'm like, 'What cleavage?”
― Natalie Portman

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#10

“My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.”
― Warsan Shire

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#11

“It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.”
― Warsan Shire

tags: beautiful, existence, feminism, self-esteem

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#12

“You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn’t he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.”
― Warsan Shire

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#13

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: change, life

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#14

“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: infinity

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#15

“I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: love

11874 likes

#16

“So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower

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#17

“I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: honesty

8050 likes

#18

“I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: moi

6621 likes

#19

“He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: death, dying, fear, franz, kafka, life

1262 likes

#20

“I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

tags: kafka

1668 likes

#21

“I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more”
― Franz Kafka, The Castle

tags: kafka

417 likes

#22

“You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

tags: kafka, letters, love

1410 likes

#23

“sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man
the most guilty.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

tags: kafka, man, sleep

355 likes

#24

“The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that makes us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, lost in a forest remote from all human habitation.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

tags: existentialism, kafka, metamorphosis, trial

172 likes

#25

“Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: franz-kafka, kafka

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#26

“I carry the bars within me.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: franz, kafka

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#27

“This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell in a newly found peace after he decided not to eat animals. Kafka recognized that fish as a member of his invisible family- not as his equal, of course, but as another being that was his concern.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

tags: animals, kafka, veganism, vegetarianism

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