"I believe now that depression can never be fully grasped by mental health professionals who have not experienced it. Though I can’t claim to know everything about depression, I have a unique and powerful perspective: as a suicide survivor, as a sufferer myself, as a patient, and as a therapist. I know that people who are depressed work very hard at living, but much of their effort is fruitless, a waste of energy. It is as if they are in over their heads and don’t know how to swim; the harder they work, the worse things get."
— Richard O’Connor, Undoing Depression (via psychotherapy)
curiositycounts: Absolutely fascinating and the best part? Real. The Official (Declassified) C.I.A. Manual of Trickery and Deception  “At the height of the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency paid $3,000 to renowned magician John Mulholland to write a manual on misdirection, concealment, and stagecraft. All known copies of the document — and a related paper, on conveying hidden signals — were believed to be destroyed in 1973. But recently, the manuals resurfaced, and have now been published as “The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception.” Topics include working a clandestine partner, slipping a pill into the drink of the unsuspecting, and ‘surreptitious removal of objects by women.’” - Wired: CIA’s Lost Magic Manual Resurfaces

curiositycounts:

Absolutely fascinating and the best part? Real. The Official (Declassified) C.I.A. Manual of Trickery and Deception 

“At the height of the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency paid $3,000 to renowned magician John Mulholland to write a manual on misdirection, concealment, and stagecraft. All known copies of the document — and a related paper, on conveying hidden signals — were believed to be destroyed in 1973. But recently, the manuals resurfaced, and have now been published as “The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception.” Topics include working a clandestine partner, slipping a pill into the drink of the unsuspecting, and ‘surreptitious removal of objects by women.’”

- Wired: CIA’s Lost Magic Manual Resurfaces

saisonlune: Calvin Klein, 1982

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Calvin Klein, 1982

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"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was."
— Ernest Hemingway (via curiositycounts)
"I think that one of these days you’re going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you’ve got to start going there."
— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via bookmania)
"You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that can compete with a great city. You can’t. Because you look around and every street, every boulevard, is its own special art form and when you think that in the cold, violent, meaningless universe that Paris exists, these lights, I mean come on, there’s nothing happening on Jupiter or Neptune, but from way out in space you can see these lights, the cafés, people drinking and singing. For all we know, Paris is the hottest spot in the universe."
— Woody Allen - Midnight in Paris (via travellinginspiration)
bookpickings: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: 1944-1969 Bertrand Russell Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. From Russell’s A Liberal Decalogue — his list of the Ten Commandments that outline the essential responsibilities of a teacher.

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The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: 1944-1969

Bertrand Russell

  1. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

From Russell’s A Liberal Decalogue — his list of the Ten Commandments that outline the essential responsibilities of a teacher.

Letter from Picasso to Gertrude Stein

Letter from Picasso to Gertrude Stein

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