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What are books that make you say "yes" to life?

>> No.12157022

>>12156735
trainspotting

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>> No.12157050

>>12157047
fucking kek, it's real

>> No.12157077

>>12156735
is that varg's wife?

Also, I don't know if books are really a good tool to make you say yes to life. These men and their ideas they can point a way and describe it a little, vaguely hum the tune but they cannot take you there. Making things and having children and catching glimpses of majestic and eternal things is probably a better way. Try hiking in some beautiful and sparsely populated mountains. Or visiting an old growth forest or an ancient cathedral, have your grandmother teach you the songs she used to sing when she was a girl. These things, they let you touch eternity, they give you something to which you might say yes.

>> No.12157090

Plato's the republic

>> No.12157095

>>12156735
Nausea

>> No.12157108

>>12156735
Lord Jim
The Razor's Edge
Xenophon's Anabasis
Freefall by William Golding
Ulysses

>> No.12157119

>>12156735
1984

>> No.12157140

The Catcher in the Rye
Growth of the Soil

>> No.12157221

>>12156735
Prolegomena to any future metaphysic, thus spoke zarathustra, and Rainbow Six

>> No.12157258

>>12156735
The Bible

>> No.12157265

>>12157258
What about MAGA Mindset by Mike Cernovich?

>> No.12157275

>>12157265
XDDDDD

>> No.12157413

The Gay Science unironically

"Gratitude pours forth continually, as if the unexpected had just happened—the gratitude of a convalescent—for convalescence was unexpected. "Gay Science": that signifies the saturnalia of a spirit who has patiently resisted a terrible, long pressure—patiently, severely, coldly, without submitting, but also without hope—and who is now all at once attacked by hope, the hope for health, and the intoxication of convalescence. Is it any wonder that in the process much that is unreasonable and foolish comes to light, much playful tenderness that is lavished even on problems that have a prickly hide and are not made to be caressed and enticed? This whole book is nothing but a bit of merry-making after long privation and powerlessness, the rejoicing of strength that is returning, of a reawakened faith in a tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, of a sudden sense and anticipation of a future, of impending adventures, of seas that are open again, of goals that are permitted again, believed again. And what did not lie behind me then!"

>> No.12158570

>>12156735
Forster's spiders of NZ

>> No.12158847

>>12157119
1984 is good but quite sad

>> No.12158865

Sartor Resartus
Nietzsches kritische Studienausgabe

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