fascination ends

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[dvourer]

Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners. If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong.

Umberto Eco, Numero Zero

[omyt]

Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in the environment of coercive control is not well adapted to adult life. The survivor is left with fundamental problems in basic trust, autonomy, and initiative. She approaches the task of early adulthood――establishing independence and intimacy――burdened by major impairments in self-care, in cognition and in memory, in identity, and in the capacity to form stable relationships. She is still a prisoner of her childhood; attempting to create a new life, she reencounters the trauma.

Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (via sheholdsyoucaptivated)

[nmsys]

[driflloon]

if any of u remember what I look like can u do me a huge favor and forget

[bpdgoner]

my favorite hobby is pretending i don’t need anyone then crying myself to sleep cause i’m all alone

[floradelights]

[serge-marshennikov]

167. 2011 85x90cm

[barcarole]

Cafe in the Globe bookstore. Prague, 1994. Photo by Gueorgui Pinkhassov.

[thunderstruck9]

Lisa Brice (b. 1968), Untitled xlii, (Well Worn 7), 2015. Ink and Flashe on cotton, 29.7 x 42 cm.

[thisobscuredesireforbeauty]

Kansuke Yamamoto (1956). Source

[y-b1n]

[LIMSTAGRAM] by wg_lim

[leaveful]

[thunderstruck9]

Francis Picabia (French, 1879-1953), Couple amoureux, c.1924. Mixed media on board, 103.8 x 72.5 cm.

[madeofsushi]

i’m getting bad again and no one notices 

[saltlazy-deactivated20250422]

i am under so much stress right now all i wanna do is go to sleep 

[sheabutterbitch]

notes on rekindling romantic relationships: nostalgia is a liar, old habits die hard, don’t confuse familiarity with comfort, sometimes even healed wounds hurt, time doesn’t build trust, growth does not look the same on everyone, listen to the voice in your head, love requires more than love, protect yourself

[lottereinigerforever]

Maggie Cheung & Tony Leung publicity still for “In the mood for love”