/lit/ - Literature

>>14353343
Closest I got to actually shedding a tear, and I did feel that strange physical pressure aroun the face, was the final few chapters of Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks, focusing on little Johann, or 'Hanno'. Rarely have I felt as much for, or perhaps with, a literary character the way I did with that boy, and I'm not the sort to reader who seeks out nothing but self identification.

Credo in unum Deum,
Patrem omnipotentem,
factorem caeli et terrae,
visibilium omnium et invisibilium,
Et in unum Dominum Iesum Christum,
Filium Dei unigenitum,
et ex Patre natum, ante omnia saecula,
Deum de Deo, lumen de Lumine,
Deum verum de Deo vero,
genitum, non factum, consubstantialem Patri:
per quem omnia facta sunt.
Qui propter nos homines et propter nostram salutem descendit de caelis.
Et incarnatus est de Spiritu Sancto
ex Maria Virgine, et homo factus est.
Crucifixus etiam pro nobis sub Pontio Pilato;
passus et sepultus est,
et resurrexit tertia die, secundem Scripturas,
et ascendit in caelum, sedet ad dexteram Patris.
Et iterum venturus est cum gloria,
iudicare vivos et mortuos,
cuius regni non erit finis.
Et in Spiritum Sanctum, Dominum et vivificantem:
qui ex Patre Filioque procedit.
Qui cum Patre et Filio simul adoratur et conglorificatur:
qui locutus est per prophetas.
Et nuam, sanctam, catholicam et apostolicam Ecclesiam.
Confiteor unum baptisma in remissionem peccatorum.
Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum,
et vitam venturi saeculi. Amen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aCEAh1ln8Q

Nature has given us small sparks that, unfortunately, we soon extinguish, corrupted by bad habits and misleading opinions, so that the light of nature never manifests itself. in fact, in every soul there exist innate seeds of virtue that, if they could freely develop, would naturally lead us to a blessed life


- Cicero

>cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

>>14145872
>How fat and poor are you? Just go out and do stuff.
Not him. I'm so poor that I fret incessantly about my finances and the paltry sum of dollars I've accumulated. I know it is all going to go away, it is just a matter of time and after I think about fictional purchases, even something like a cheap $1500 car would bankrupt me. Most everyone I know are going out, doing stuff, spending money. They own game systems, eat sumptuously. Even people who live paycheck to paycheck have family they can rely on to love them as the safety net if they completely fuck up. I don't have any of that. I'm ready to just give up in life and join a monastery but inasmuch as I've grown in the few hundreds of dollars I've saved, I've also stored up in my heart vices, whereas whenever I was at least jobless, my soul was set on virtue and perfection; so really, I cannot even do that. If I recover, I want to just go there and never return. I lost all affection for the world, its honors and its riches that even if I had them, the bitterness imparted is so so strong that they would be regurgitated.

>>14113413
>Another infidel will ask: How can God justly punish with eternal torments a sin that lasts but a moment? I answer, that the grievousness of a crime is measured not by its duration, but by the enormity of its malice. The malice of mortal sin is, as St. Thomas says, infinite. (1, 2, q. 87, art. 4.) Hence, the damned deserve infinite punishment; and, because a creature is not capable of suffering pains infinite in point of intensity, God, as the holy doctor says, renders the punishment of the damned infinite in extension by making it eternal.

>Moreover, it is just, that as long as the sinner remains in his sin, the punishment which he deserves should continue. And, therefore, as the virtue of the saints is rewarded in Heaven, because it lasts for ever, so also the guilt of the damned in Hell, because it is everlasting, shall be chastised with everlasting torments. ”Quia non recipit causæ remedium,” says Eusebius Emissenus, “carebit fine supplicium.” The cause of their perverse will continues: therefore, their chastisement will never have an end. The damned are so obstinate in their sins, that even if God offered pardon, their hatred for him would make them refuse it.

>Another infidel will ask: How can God justly punish with eternal torments a sin that lasts but a moment? I answer, that the grievousness of a crime is measured not by its duration, but by the enormity of its malice. The malice of mortal sin is, as St. Thomas says, infinite. (1, 2, q. 87, art. 4.) Hence, the damned deserve infinite punishment; and, because a creature is not capable of suffering pains infinite in point of intensity, God, as the holy doctor says, renders the punishment of the damned infinite in extension by making it eternal.

>Moreover, it is just, that as long as the sinner remains in his sin, the punishment which he deserves should continue. And, therefore, as the virtue of the saints is rewarded in Heaven, because it lasts for ever, so also the guilt of the damned in Hell, because it is everlasting, shall be chastised with everlasting torments. ”Quia non recipit causæ remedium,” says Eusebius Emissenus, “carebit fine supplicium.” The cause of their perverse will continues: therefore, their chastisement will never have an end. The damned are so obstinate in their sins, that even if God offered pardon, their hatred for him would make them refuse it.

>cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
I work 16 hours a day. I do not have free time. The money earned is nothing and expenses one week soon reset the bank balance to again near zero.

Critique of Pure Reason, only just started yesterday. Understanding it but it's still tedious

>>12761295
>want to become a published author
>terrified of having my diary desu in a Wikipedia entry

I dunno. Crying is cathartic though, and I wish I could still do it.

I haven't cried in half a decade.

>>12333730
>i will (probably) never lick her asshole

>>12140601
White Nights - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

>>11780896
>are
Were

>>11707892
I had a /lit/fu.

I'm starting university soon so hopefully I can get a new one.

>Be 21 years old
>Still identify with Holden Caulfield
>tfw have autism

>>11204604
I WISH I COULD SAVE HER IN SOME SORT OF TIME MACHINE

>>11127028
>>11128346
>females

>>11104398
God I miss her so much

>>10237730

>My life then was already gloomy, disorderly, and solitary to the point of savagery. I did not associate with anyone, and even avoided speaking, and shrank more and more into my corner. (...) I even tried not to look at anyone, and I noticed very well that my colleagues not only considered my an odd man, but - as I also kept fancying - seemed to look at me with certain loathing.

This is too real

>It's illegal to fuck your own daughter and even if you managed to get some woman pregnant and have a daughter she probably wouldn't want to fuck you anyway
Books for this feel?

China Mieville

>Anton Chekhov's "Misery"
something similar?