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"For himself, failure did not mortify him the way it once had; he had some sense now that the broken edges were part of the whole, and the future narrowed to a point. If there was only one outcome, what was the point of being afraid?"

Isabella Hammad, The Parisian

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a secondhand bookstore in montmartre

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spb

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Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan 🇮🇹

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my favourite place on campus to study

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dd__boon

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A+ 💋

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in life updates: decided to enroll in a notoriously difficult class this semester. civil law is my achilles heel, and i also wanted to force myself into better study habits and time management. last week, i took the midterm and braced myself for a fail: despite improvements in the way i prepared for class and spoke during cold calls, i'd still been struggling over the semester. after the exam ended, i went and checked the schedule for dropping classes. one week later. dear reader, i passed.

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@jamestolic for @inprint_magazine

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“If you become too dependent on a particular equilibrium to perform well, you make yourself vulnerable to being thrown off by changing circumstances. Being able to function in a wider range of conditions makes you more versatile and flexible. It’s also useful to have homeostatic processes in place to enable you to get back to what you find optimal after any sort of disruption. In competitive situations, those who flounder when they’re thrown off their equilibrium by something unexpected without having the mechanisms to reorient often suffer. Sometimes you can transcend your abilities by thinking about what an opponent expects or considers normal. You can also achieve more by rethinking what the equilibrium is in your field.”

— Farnam Street, The Great Mental Models Volume 3: Systems and Mathematics

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“You became like coffee, in the deliciousness, and the bitterness, and the addiction.”

Mahmoud Darwish

Instagram: @solitudeismyeuphoria

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milk and cookies and coffee and cake and berries and scone and buns and rolls and more

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The newly renovated Bibliothèque Nationale de France

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