/lit/ - Literature

I will be having sex in about thirty minutes. What will you guys be doing? Lying in your beds alone. Post ending in 0 decides what I whisper in her ear while I am undoing her bra.

>>7082475
>>7082399
Here is the source: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/counsels/chapter2.html

You may say the wisest thing you can, old man — you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind — I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that. One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

>>6996567

Most men make use of the first part of their life to render the last part miserable.

>>6596319
"Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority."