/lit/ - Literature

>>12197116
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>>12130201
>hundreds of tactical puzzles a day
wrong mindset
it's more beneficial to get ten out of ten right than solving fifty out of hundred.

>>11467587
benis

>Melancholics have big bones that contain little marrow, like vipers. . . . They are excessively libidinous and, like donkeys, overdo it with women. If they desisted from this depravity, madness would result. . . . Their love is hateful, twisted and death-carrying, like the love of voracious wolves. . . . They have intercourse with women but they hate them.
t. hildegard von bingen

>hot melancholy, or melancholia fumosa, has two extremely important effects on the phantasmic activity of the subject. The first consists in the mobility of the phantasms within the subtle organism: the second, in the great capacity of phantasms to stay impressed upon the pneuma. This brings w i th it, besides a prodigious memory, an extraordinary capacity for analysis. That is why, Ficino tells us, all the great men who have ever excelled in an art have been melancholic, either because they were born so or became so through assiduous meditation.
t. culianu

>muh dionysos
t. nietzsche

Maturity is when you can dab on your haters without malice

Once Nasreddin was invited to deliver a sermon. When he got on the pulpit, he asked, Do you know what I am going to say? The audience replied "no", so he announced, I have no desire to speak to people who don't even know what I will be talking about! and left.
The people felt embarrassed and called him back again the next day. This time, when he asked the same question, the people replied yes. So Nasreddin said, Well, since you already know what I am going to say, I won't waste any more of your time! and left.
Now the people were really perplexed. They decided to try one more time and once again invited the Mulla to speak the following week. Once again he asked the same question – Do you know what I am going to say? Now the people were prepared and so half of them answered "yes" while the other half replied "no". So Nasreddin said Let the half who know what I am going to say, tell it to the half who don't, and left.

even numbers are female
odd numbers are male

when you have sex, your thrusts must be odd, like four normal thrusts plus one deep thrust. or 8+1. but the total number must be odd. such are the rules of yin and yang.

start when you are ready

don't wait for a good wind, sail with the first kind zephyr

it's about searching, not finding

>>10922833
>Justifying our sins is what I would consider the essence of evil.
non-denominational Christians permanently btfo

>>10864455
No. Read Andy Clark or Antonio Damasio instead.

fiction is a bow
you are the string
your life is the resonance body

sometimes its too early to use the bow

the wise puts a climax inside his antimetabole

>>10724947
not chasing anything, just transmuting

resembles classic greek shitposting

>You have horns for you haven't lost any horns therefore you have them still !

>"When you shake out a sack of corn, which grain makes the noise? The first?" "No" . "The second?" "No" . "The third, etc.?" "No". "Therefore . . . ."

>One of Aristotle's disciples, Clearchus, wrote a Theory of the Riddle, particularly of the kind called griphos: a joke question-game played for rewards or forfeits. "What is the same everywhere and nowhere?" Answer : "Time" .

>"What I am you are not. I'm a man, therefore you're not a man". Diogenes is supposed to have said: " If you want it to be true you'd better begin with me" .

it must be read backwards
1 matter
2 plants
3 animals
4 man

5 and 6 are only implied through repetition of 4 because he only sees shadows of demons and gods

>>10591788
why should the first time be special? you never step into the same book twice. the disinterested neutral subject is a spook.

dont judge a fish by its flying ability

what matter is how many do you have stored in your head so you can keep re-reading them in a dark solitary confinement cell?