/lit/ - Literature

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>>4050836

Person you're replying to here. How do you cope with the fact that the world is 'broken' (I'm probably the one who's broken) and very far from your ideals? I know very logically that I should move on and take from it whatever I can, but emotionally I keep coming back to it.

Existential crisis is fucking stupid but I think this is what did Nietzsche in - being unable to let go of your ideals and sense of meaning. My Taoism didn't help. I'm not ready for Buddhism

How does /lit/ feel about the realisation that they've achieved nothing of worth? Not just in regards to writing, but in general? We spend all of our time reading about what other people have done, or pursuing instant pleasure via the internet and other activities that we've never put in the discipline to achieve anything great?

When somebody asks what you're good at, what do you reply? Reading?

>previous three
alain de botton - consolations of philosophy
schopenhauer - essays and aphorisms
plato - meno

>currently
sartre - nausea

>next three
dostoyevsky - karamazov brothers
marcus aurelius - meditations
ayn rand - virtue of selfishness

>Previously
arthur schopenhauer - essays and aphorisms

>Present
fyodor dostoyevsky - notes from the underground
albert camus - the myth of sysiphus

>Next
marcus aurelius - meditations or
sigmund freud - the psychopathology of everday life

>mfw plebs like woody allen think existentialism is dark and broody because they have never had a case of the proper nihilisms

>What do you read when you can't read anything?

Nothing.