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Beauty in the apertures of pain

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I want to say Without temper If possible without the least sense of the heroic Without even the measured ambition to speak the truth which is only another vulgarity To say I am not what I was Indeed I was nothing and now I am at least the possibility of something and this I will defend.
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ritahayworrth

I remembered once reading in a book that long ago they used to put insane people into pits full of snakes. I think they figured that something which might drive a normal person insane, might shock an insane person back into sanity. Did you ever hear of that? Olivia de Havilland as Virginia Stuart Cunningham in The Snake Pit (1948) dir. Anatole Litvak

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anenlighteningellipsis

Happy 104th Birthday, you indomitable darling! <3

#can you believe?#hbd#olivia de havilland#the snake pit#1940s#film#mental illness#cw ect#idk if that's gonna get picked up but...#she's so excellent in this and it wasn't nearly as... gratuitous ? in the lobotomy/ect department as i expected#ftr i watched it for the first time when i was 17 so...#over a decade ago shhhh#q
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alexdrakes
For The Snake Pit (1948) Olivia de Havilland willingly threw herself into the research. She attended patient treatments at the institutions, and observed electric shock therapy and hydrotherapy first-hand. When permitted, she sat in on doctor-patient therapy sessions. She also attended social events for patients at the institutions.
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#this film !!!!#what a searing heartrendingly realistic portrayal by liv#i just... *blubbers profusely*#i 'm mfine really i'm f i ne#///me#olivia de havilland#ilysm#the snake pit#film#anatole litvak#1940s#mental illness#to see if there's a pub
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 "What's the matter with me? Is it a brain tumor?"  "You've had a nervous breakdown." "'Nervous breakdown'... that doesn't sound so bad, does it?" "It just takes time, that's all." "What else does it do to you besides 'take time'?" 

“The Snake Pit” [1948], dir. Anatole Litvak

#*crying and laughing and throwing glass across the room*#mental illness#time#the snake pit#olivia de havilland#anatole litvak#film#quotes#do recommend#***#where is my gifset of this scene i need it#/but am too lazy/graphics ignorant to make it/
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