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(via Camille Vivier on Her New Retrospective: “I’m Still Romantic”)

Camille Vivier, Deborah Standing in Freud’s Cabinet, 2023

Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-27

Text ID: I observe how much I have matured since last year despite my belief that I was losing myself, how something strong was born from the painful experiences survived and from the numerous minutes that I believed were wasted.

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“When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.”

— Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

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shaheenoov

اللهم لا تشقينا بعطاياك ولا تشقينا بولد ولا تعذبنا بمرض, ولا تسلط علينا أحد ونجنا من شر النفاثات في العقد ومن شر حاسد إذا حسد ومن حاقد إذا حقد, واجعل لنا من كل هم فرجًا, ومن كل ضيق مخرجًا, ومن كل داء دواء, ومن كل مرض شفاء, ومن كل بلاء عافية, وارحم اللهم موتانا واشف مرضانا يارب العالمين

thoughtkick

“Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you are choosing someone out of love or loneliness.”

— Mandy Hale

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“I couldn’t calm down. Was it possible that Mario should leave me like this, without warning? It seemed to me incredible that all of a sudden he had become uninterested in my life, like a plant watered for years that is abruptly allowed to die of drought. I couldn’t conceive that he had unilaterally decided that he no longer owed me any attention.”

— Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

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Illustration from a 1941 advertisement

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bob-belcher

Mare of Easttown | 1x05 - "Illusions"

dinosaurspen

I'm charmed that BRLESC had a photograph of ENIAC (its predecessor at Aberdeen Proving Ground) hanging on the side of its console. (Also note the drapery beneath the photo, presumably blocking an entrance to the wiring-side of the panel.)

Speculating a bit here, but while I don't think the below image is the exact one in the photo (the perspective's not right, even from a three-quarter view), I think it might be from the same set. It's too low resolution to make out exactly, but there seems to be someone in an dark, ankle-length dress and a second person in the background.