/lit/ - Literature

>>13902790
>>13902753
>solitude
But that also would make me suffer.
I think getting a gf is the least of the two evils. Or maybe it's just my natural male instincts trying to trick me.

Also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femme_fatale

"On the face of it, the monotony of ordinary lives is horrifying. In this
simple restaurant where I’m eating lunch, I look at the figure of the cook
behind the counter and at the old waiter, near my table, who serves me
and who I believe has been a waiter here for thirty years. What kind of
lives do these men lead? For forty years that figure of a man has spent
most of every day in a kitchen; he doesn’t get much time off; he sleeps
relatively little; he occasionally goes to his home town, returning
without hesitation or regret; he slowly saves his slowly earned money,
which he has no plans to spend; he would get ill if he had to retire for
good from his kitchen to the piece of land he bought in Galicia; he has
been in Lisbon for forty years and has never yet gone to the Rotunda* or
to a theatre, and just once to the circus at the Coliseum, whose clowns
still inhabit his life’s inner vestiges. He married – I don’t know how or
why – and has four sons and a daughter, and his smile, as he leans over
the counter in my direction, expresses a tremendous, solemn, satisfied
happiness. And he’s not pretending, nor would he have reason to
pretend. If he feels happy, it’s because he really is."
- Fernando Pessoa
- Fernando Pessoa