/lit/ - Literature

>>9317877
No because the pain either becomes more meaningful and ripe with delicious bitter fruits or you kill yourself. Either way, it's a win win.

>>8735747
This guy is a good example.

>>7916142
E. M. Cioran. One of those few writers almost as edgy as myself. I mimic his short aphoristic philosophical essay style which has an almost poetic quality to it.

>>7802546
“A book is a suicide postponed.”
― Emil Cioran

>>7797106
Hardcover
cons:
>those annoying, pointless dust jackets which become damaged and creased, the instant you try to hold the book
>90% of hardcovers actually look shit without the dust jackets because the publisher assumes you are never going to take them off
>cost more
>less fit into a suitcase for travelling
>limited translations available in hardcover

Were there ever societies with more intense self-criticism than the current Western Civilization (and its periphery)?

>>7014806

"Read day and night, devour books—these sleeping pills—not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions." - E.M. Cioran

Nietzsche without his hammer?

>" If Moliere had given himself up to his abyss, Pascal — with his — would look like a journalist."
>kek

>To a student who wanted to know where I stood with regard to the author of Zarathustra, I replied that I had long since stopped reading him. Why? "I find him too naive . . ."
>I hold his enthusiasms, his fervors against him. He demolished so many idles only to replace them with others: a false iconoclast, with adolescent aspects and a certain virginity, a certain innocence inherent in his solitary's career. He observed men only from a distance. Had he come closer, he could have neither conceived nor promulgated the superman, that preposterous, laughable, even grotesque chimera, a crotchet which could only occur to a mind without time to age, to know the long serene disgust of detachment.

—E.M. Cioran


Thoughts?

>To a student who wanted to know where I stood with regard to the author of Zarathustra, I replied that I had long since stopped reading him. Why? "I find him too naive . . ."
I hold his enthusiasms, his fervors against him. He demolished so many idles only to replace them with others: a false iconoclast, with adolescent aspects and a certain virginity, a certain innocence inherent in his solitary's career. He observed men only from a distance. Had he come closer, he could have neither conceived nor promulgated the superman, that preposterous, laughable, even grotesque chimera, a crotchet which could only occur to a mind without time to age, to know the long serene disgust of detachment.

—E.M. Cioran


Thoughts?

What are some arguments against Cioran's brand of pessimism and antinatalism?