“Feel That Life Is Wholly Unendurable, And Decide Madly To Get A New Hat.”

Detail: Apollo and the Arts, 1897, by Paul Jean Gervais.

what about this theory. the fear of not being enough. and the fear of being ‘too much.’ are exactly the same fear. the fear of being you.

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“Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.”

— May Sarton. “Journal of a Solitude: The Journals of Mary Sarton”. 

The Indianapolis News, Indiana, March 28, 1934

fraktur love letters (pennsylvania c.1800-1850)

show me the forbidden coping mechanisms

Carl Vilhelm Holsøe, (1863-1835)- Reflections