/lit/ - Literature

>read [book]
>compare everything experienced/experiencing/will experience to contents of [book] incessantly for a month or two
>occurrences later in life trigger memories of the contents of [book] years after having read [book]

>>12724307
>I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
>We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.
>You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.
>I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.

beautiful quotes desu

What philosopher(s) should an anti-social, autistic, friendless, kissless, hand-holdless virgin read?

>>12058670
>mfw I genuinely think Axe smells alright but am afraid people will think I'm using it for attention

>>7443099
>tfw getting called a c.uck daily by 80-year olds

>>6844609
Just bninged a bunch of her videos and ran through her instagram. I feel sad and happy at the same time, and a urge to go outside and meet people like her. I also feel pathetic for feeling this way, but I guess I'm lucky to feel anything at all at this point.

I'm going on vacation in a couple of weeks and need book recs. I'm bringing Taipei, Lolita (so I give my fellow tourists some discomfort) and The New York Trilogy. I need some more, but can't think of any.

>mfw I realized mathematics is the logical conclusion to philosophy and vice versa

>yfw you realize that killing yourself is not the end to ideology

>>5979065
The Waste Land

>>5955672

>tfw no giddy 3.5 yo gf

>tfw I'm too sleepy to read right now