/lit/ - Literature

>>22480539
I'm thinking of going to rehab just for my pot addiction
I can go weeks, maybe even months without it but I can't enjoy myself or feel anything or think clearly without it

The Ruined Cottage by Wordsworth

>what really kept them from moving into another flat was rather their own complete hopelessness and the belief that they had been singled out for a misfortune such as had never happened to any of their relations or acquaintances. They fulfilled to the uttermost all that the world demands of poor people, the father fetched breakfast for the small clerks in the bank, the mother devoted her energy to making underwear for strangers, the sister trotted to and fro behind the counter at the behest of customers, but more than this they had not the strength to do.

>tfw been sick and didn’t get to vote this year

>>17626255
s-stop

>Dedicated in filial affection to Mary, the triple author:
>First as Mother who didst give to the Son of the living God a body with which he borrowed human guilt and paid back death with life
>Then as author of these words about the Word for only in dark hours when gall with ink did mix she made the writer see Christ and crucifix
>And last as author with the spirit of Christ in each reader's heart acting on each page as the sweet incendiary of that love we fall just short of in all love
Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, Dedication

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>>16430105
>they don't read shit they just look at the name of the fucking book and read a fucking wikipedia article
Are you stupid? I read the whole book and not just once.
And go cry somewhere else you fucking faggot. When you got no answers it means there wasn't anybody around at that time who is an Kant expert or who had time to do an in-depth answer.
You crybaby clearly don't belong here, go to >>>/reddit/

>>16392632
>canada
>cohen
>macleod
>ondaatje
women control everything and there's no freedom of expression, which is why all the successful canadian writers are women. it's worse than china.

ahhhhhhh i write like shit, oh god

>somehow luck out and my work gets accepted for publication by a smallish publisher specialized in fantasy/sci-fi and is a subsidiary to one of the major publishing houses
>walking on clouds for weeks
>as things get finalized the editor asks if I'd like to add a dedication
>joke that I'd like to dedicate it "to Women: with all my hatred"
>figured it'd be a funny subversion of the platitude
>it's been 4 days and still no reply
>check the publication status of my work
>it's gone from approved to pending
i want to curl up and cease existing

>Agrippa's trillema

any book about why god is doing these to me?

>What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.'

>"Pessoa held a lifelong job as bookkeeper and translator of foreign correspondence in Lisbon, a city he rarely left, and lived an extremely solitary life, never marrying. Josipovici describes him as a man who dressed "with the utmost correctness; a man of few gestures in a peninsula of gesticulators; smoking up to eighty cigarettes a day"

>"Despite his apparently ascetic and asexual nature, Pessoa was recalled by friends and neighbours as a deeply lonely man, his outlook on intimacy oscillating wildly between complete rejection of love in favour of intellectual pursuits, to obsessive - and rather worrying - devotion to women who are unlikely to have been aware of his feelings towards them. One theory claims that some of Pessoa's earliest heteronyms were invented to allow him to write lengthy erotic letters - discovered several decades after his death - to various young women living in Lisbon, without the risk of these letters being associated with him."

>"As far as is known, he died a virgin; he did take up with one Ophelia Queiroz when he was 31 and she 19 — she also wrote to some of the heteronyms. After six months Pessoa broke it off, saying that he was not like other humans, followed a different Law."

>"During 1914, while living with his Aunt Anica on Lisbon's Rua Pascoal de Melo, the twenty-six-year old Pessoa revealed in a diary entry how loneliness and a lack of either material or artistic success had burdened him with immense feelings of failure and despondency. Treating his diary as a kind of maternal figure, Pessoa demands to know why he has so far failed to establish any kind of name for himself in Lisbon or formed any lasting bonds with its inhabitants. "Why do I only condone a ghost-like existence for myself. Wherever I go, I haunt. I sense the deep unease which people feel in my company - even my employer treats me with a kind of pity which is unbecoming of a man so assertive and so otherwise willing to lend no sympathetic attention to his business. Must I always perceive life as though through a glass window, fearing always that it will become obscured by the heat and revelry aside and leave me entirely alone outside on the abandoned street? Why, dear diary, do I fail to penetrate life like other writers and philosophers do with some competence? Tonight I feel abandoned once again. My spirit aches. The world outside proceeds while I yearn like a chained dog to be allowed to travel with it. Worse still is that there is no chain preventing me from living the life of a human being.""

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5kW4i1T_bQ

>tfw no ukranian waif gf
why live

What are some novels that are just one long descent into sadness and despair?

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>>14332990
I have this every few days. My "it" is bbw/ssbbw/women getting fat as fuck and I can't stand this sick obsession anymore

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I'm such a fucking miserable loser. I'm gonna die a KHHV

ENOUGH OF THIS COOMER POSTING I CAN'T TAKE IT ANY MORE

>And my poor fool is hanged.—No, no, no life Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life,
And thou no breath at all?

are these the saddest lines in all of literature?

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STOP POSTING HER

How do I stop fapping to porn and attain eternal salvation?