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Autumn Sonata (dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1978)

Vladimir Nabokov, accounting for his notoriously poor verbal habits once said,

At parties, if I attempt to entertain people with a good story, I have to go back to every other sentence for oral erasures and inserts. Even the dream I describe to my wife across the breakfast table is only a first draft. I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

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your teens are for repeatedly not killing yourself. your 20s are for having intellectual pretensions. your 30s are for making a reallyyyyy good cup of chai masala

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165 school girls + their teachers buried in Minab, Iran

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carl jung girl you were so right about avoidance

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“if we don't accept our own destiny, a different kind of suffering takes its place: a neurosis develops, and I believe that that life which we have to live is not as bad as a neurosis. if I have to suffer, then let it be from my reality. a neurosis is a much greater curse! in general, a neurosis is a replacement for an evasion, an unconscious desire to cheat life, to avoid something. one cannot do more than live what one really is. and we are all made up of opposites and conflicting tendencies. after much reflection, I have come to the conclusion that it is better to live what one really is and accept the difficulties that arise as a result-because avoidance is much worse.”