/lit/ - Literature

>>11812325
His mouth just gets bigger and bigger, absolute kek

>>11610292
>The Incredibles girl cosplay

Oh fuck

Have any of you accidentally had a thought you believed was so original and earth-shattering before you realized a much more famous writer copied it down on paper years, sometimes centuries before you?

For example, I'm a depressionfag, and I wrote a passage in my journal to the effect of how too much truth can be a bad thing for the soul, and then I find this quote by Nietzsche:
>Something could well be true, although it is at the same time harmful and dangerous to the highest degree. In fact, it could even be part of the fundamental composition of existence that people are destroyed when they fully recognize this point — so that the strength of a spirit might be measured by how much it could still endure of the “truth,” or put more clearly, by the degree it would have to have the truth diluted, sweetened, muffled, or falsified.

Now, granted, it doesn't take a genius to come to a conclusion like this, but I wonder how often this happens to other /lit/izens?