/lit/ - Literature

>>17277044
I thought this was only an e-book. I have a soft spot for spiral binding...

>>12460765
>>12461972
Weird. Since I know I can't have one of these all for myself I kind of really want to see it's face smashed in with a hammer.

>>12358993
>purely coincidental

>>12007814
This experience is secretly the only reason I'm going back to uni in january. I feel I've lived a very full life, and courted a fair share of women, but have never been able to discuss a single line of literature with any of them. This is something I need to experience for myself.

>>12000921
The concept of human love should not be thought of in an objectifying manner. Your love is not an object that can be handed over or an essence springing from a finite source.
Love that has gone unrequited for too long can be one of the most psychologically harmful experiences a human being can endure. After a trauma, closure is often sought. When closure is sought from outside sources, only further harm and overall dissatisfaction can be found. Seek your closure from within, and most importantly forgive that which is without. Your forgiveness of the other is fundamental, as is your forgiveness of yourself for having gotten into this situation in the first place, with only the best intentions in mind. Know that what others do to harm is usually not intentional, and if it is it springs from their own insecurities which have no business becoming YOUR insecurities too. Observe nature, anon. In nature you'll see that there is still Goodness in this world. Goodness that far outweighs the perceived evils brought about by the deeds of people who refuse to acknowledge their own inner imbalances.
It's easy to cut yourself off from others after you've been wronged. In fact, it seems as the only logical conclusion at times. Seek your closure from within, and look for the difference in doing what is easy, and doing what your heart tells you is right.

>it's another ''anon thinks he has outsmarted every philosopher who has ever lived'' episode

>>9383349
>I don't really know what to ask you its just I feel like this is permanent

Trust me, it's not. It's just not effortless.
The only thing I can tell you is to become as aware as possible of your habits. Try to notice how much time are you passing on the internet, what are the thought processes that bring you on /lit/ even when you wanted to read (you will quickly realize that selective amnesia of your priorities is a costant in most addictions).

It's hard. Again, treat it as an addiction: look at yourself in the same way you would look at a crackhead, while still keeping in mind that you have not ruined yourself forever.
The overcoming of this addiction has to be deliberate, it's something you're ACTIVELY doing.

Please promise me that you will actually make an effort for it. I know what's at the end of the road (if you're curious: there's nothing but regrets), and I genuinely want you to avoid it. Don't waste your life on such a unsatisfying, meaningless gimmick.

>>9240382
>tfw only famous French intellectuals can pull that behaviour off

Feels bad.

>>9188052
>>9188015
Cut me some slack guys, I know how pathetic that sounds.
>tfw ADHD

>>9180037
>From these eternal rounds,
>And from my being frail,
>Others, perchance, may pleasure, profit gain;
>To me life is but pain.

What was wrong with Leopardi?

>>9151005
>tfw the Nazis got /pol/ faster than Adorno

For fuck's sake, we could have had a 4chan movement based on the Frankfrut School. Imagine how patrician that would be.

>>9146097
>tfw people still believe in the Frankfrut School conspiracy

>>9097497
The best way to promote that aesthetic is nationalism, since it's the only modern line of thought that promotes classicism. The best way to promote nationalism it is to be a nationalist myself, or at least to behave like one.
Of course I don't believe in its central values, nor I'm linking them to any metaphysical foundation, yet the enactment of those values creates a results that coincides with my ideal world.

>tfw in a truly ideal world people would just reject everything that is either aesthetically worthless and uninteresting in the first place
>tfw no one feels true disgust when seeing trendy clothing stores in historic centres
>tfw humanity won't ever ascend

>>9084501
Not a real philosophical issue, but I'm obsessed with applied ethics and the need to live a completely altruistic life.
On a day to day basis I can't justify to myself most of the things I do, from using technology built through slave labour to the fact that I'd rather buy junk food than giving literally all I've got to charities.

I know that I may be a bit too unrealistic, but at the same time I can't find any decent argument for not devoting my entire life to humanity. I'm an hypocrite for not abiding to these beliefs, and I suffer greatly cause of it.

>inb4 ethics are a spook

>>9057062
>professional musician
>probably a shitty guitarist/bassist/drummer and not an actual classical and contemporary music concertist who only listen to scaruffi-/mu/core trash
>think that his opinion is actually relevant


Adorno was right.

>>9020445
>tfw you already know that this guy is a complete retard and will certainly fail as a writer an as an artist
>tfw he's completely oblivious to his idiocy