/lit/ - Literature

>>23468327
I will live a long doomed life and tell you all about it.

What are some Mind-Blowing books which will change my view of life - and perhaps lead me to something tangible and substantial.

I am feeling dejected and demoralised, I feel like I have no purpose and the circumstances that I have found myself in only worsen this condition of helplessness (I am 20 I have no education, or employment, no friends and a family which despises me, all my younger siblings have already far exceeded anything I have achieved, the possibility of any change seems to be nonexistent)

>match with girl on tinder
>have similar interests
>consistently talk for two days, no one word replies or anything
>i ask her out for coffee
>she says yes but she doesn't know when she can
>fuckthatprobablymeansno.jpg
>ask if she'd be free this weekend
>no reply

Things were looking so good so i thought it'd be appropriate to ask her out. This can't be the autism, we were literally having a full on conversation and into the same things. idk what went wrong

>tfw no gf

>>18523288
I started studying it because Balzac, Proust, Kafka, Mishima and Flaubert did.

If I fail a single one of my uni exams I am ending it all.

>>18382849
I feel you anon. I did some more stuff, but in the end, I wasted my day, just like I did yesterday, just like I did last week, last month, last year...
These last 3 years have gone so fast, and I wasted them almost completely. Future seems to come so fast, and I am scared of it.
I wish I could go back to when I was child, and I still thought the future was going to be bright, when I still enjoyed life, wish I could warn myself about what was to come.

>>17877706
How am I supposed to imagine Sisyphus happy?

>want to read
>begin to read
>drink so much in the process that the words turn wobbly and I cannot read
any books for this feel

>>15692536
I've even thought about the lectures I'd give

>I am a sick man.... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased. However, I know nothing at all about my disease, and do not know for certain what ails me.

Combination of ambition, narcissism, self-critique and too much self contemplation. That's what I feel like at least.

>pale skinned
>petite
>glasses
>around 30 but looks 16
>literature teacher
>soft voice
>incredibly cute face
>good taste in music
>lives alone in a department with her cat
>talks about books with me after class
I miss her

>>14257599
I just finishe afterstory and i feel fucking crushed

>>14228702
she has the keeness of those eyes that peer mischeviously into a dear lovers eyes, a lover that unabashedly takes her photograph in public, because he is overwhelmed with the prescence of her. And in this moment she is both contented, as her mate is showing interest and as her mate is showing care, and seemingly duplicitous, as it makes no real sense why one should take anothers photo when in their prescence, and not beginning to depart from it. She has the eyes of youth, a naive and innocent gaze that, though sometimes haphazard and disobedient, has nothing but foolish love at heart, love of attention, love of wanting, love of another. It is only in later years, or early years if one becomes distraught in this, that one begins to love wisdom, and then the eyes change into a full spectrum, a full color scheme that not even the most talented of impressionists could do justice. And, though not that transcendent color ideal, her eyes are beautiful in their simplicity, their misunderstanding, their myopic shortsightedness (yet not hateful shortseeing) and in their temporality, things forbidden in the eyes of the aged. You seem to see what you want to see. You seem too cynical of the female condition. It is the men of the past that effect the women of the present, those who raised them, and those who raised them, and those who razed them, and those who razed them. We should be more optimistic, not in a callow sort of way, in a transcendent sort of way, as Thoreau or Emerson would approve, and, although you perceptively saw that hte women of this generation are scum and full of envy and hate (things that ought to be foreign to women) we must rise above and raise a generation of women who are taught Love of Wisdom, through all this adversity of modern hellish living, and become great in out transcendence, a tale to tell our grandchildren, and their grandchildren twice four times over.

>>14203378
that first video hit me like a fucking train especially the last part where they start kissing like her life depends on it. it's like i have forgotten something that has been an essential part of me then suddenly remembering it and everything associated with it. or suddenly becoming aware of my lonely self.
thanks anon now i can't jerk off, i'm going to smoke some cigs while listening to have a nice life then sleep while borderline crying

is the hobbit+lord of rings trilogy+silmarillion worth reading?

>>14094009
OP here, I bought a kindle to study english, i downloaded a bunch of books i thought i would like to read but im dropping all nonphilosophy books out of boredom

>you will never be fully fluent in english and also forget your native language

>Just turned thirty
>Still haven’t published
Is it over?