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What's some literature about living on despite the pain and loneliness of life?

>> No.13438755
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Why not self improve instead until you are living the life you've always dreamed?

>> No.13438758

I was reading The Sorrows of Young Werther last night and Werther really goes crazy trying to do what you want to read about, in a way.

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>> No.13438767

>>13438748
You have shit tier, faggot taste in anime

>> No.13438781

>>13438758
Oh and yeah if you go further with Goethe and read Faust you'll realize how ephemeral and dreadful a malformed homunculus Madoka is. I can't believe there are people who think it's actually excellent.

>> No.13438858

>>13438755
Tbh I do constantly try to self improve but I've never really seen anything other than minimal gains sadly, but I think it's good advice overall :)

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>>13438858
Well then keep at it bro, the journey is the destination. There is no shame in baby steps, don't think in terms of "minimal gains".

>> No.13438936

>>13438748
My diary desu

>> No.13438963

>>13438748
Osamu Dazai - no longer human
Dostoyevsky - notes from the underground
Samuel Beckett - Molloy
Schopenhauer - on the suffering of the world
Cioran - on the heights of despair
Kafka - the metamorphosis
Fernando pessoa - the book of disquiet
Georges perec - un homme qui dort

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>>13438748
all of literature

>> No.13439154

>>13438963
this is a good list. only thing i have to add is myth of sisyphus by camus

>> No.13440128

>>13438748
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki

>> No.13440160

>>13438748
What the buddah tought