/lit/ - Literature

>>20714943
F romm presents love as an activity, a skill that can be taught and developed, rejecting the idea of love as a magical and mysterious sensation that cannot be analyzed and explained. He focuses on love as a permanent state of being, as opposed to the short-lived experience of "falling in love" or being helpless in the face of love
Fromm calls the desire for interpersonal fusion the most powerful striving in humans. He argues that love is the only rational answer to our need to overcome separateness, which he sees as the fundamental problem of human existence.

I have not cracked open my (digital) copy
Wouldn’t mind cracking open the lady at the bottom

There’s Stendhal’s brilliant though scattershot On Love
C.S. Lewis’ The Four Loves
Fromm’s Art of Loving
What else?

>>17111925
Same.

Maybe

>>16685534
211th post, best post.

>>16102067
But you’re not coping with your pathetic loveless existence, anon.

Been meaning to read this one too. Not committing just yet.

>>15335766
So what’s your point?

>>15335760
This place talks about depression so fucking much. Where are all the books on joy and exhilaration?

>>14814536
2/3

Next read:
I plan on reading/finishing
Leisure | The Basis of Culture
Permaculture
The Well at world’s End
The Next Revolution
A whole host of others I could mention, but back to this Wabi Sabi book

Overheard conversation:
>you don’t have any sweet n low?
>Which is better, stivia or splenda?
>I’ll try one of each. Sounds illegal. But that’s how I roll

>>14318369
No. It’s not “boring” it’s comfy. And even though I have no one to project it towards, I feel as intensely about it as ever.
Some people lose their interest for loved ones. That’s probably all you’re seeing. Hard to tell what lay behind their eyes.
This and perhaps that C.S. lewis piece, The Four Loves

I keep around 300+ shelved away in my home
The digital version is just as good as the real thing.

Things I can say about a book that I can also say about a women:

Smells wonderful
Good company at home or in public places
I could spend hours with them, but some of them I can put down
Some of them are bright, some of them are dumb
A real Paige Turner

I keep around 300+ shelved away in my home
The digital version is just as good as the real thing.

Things Incan say about about a book that I can also say about a women:

Smells wonderful
Good company at home or in public places
I could spend hours with them, but some of them I can put down
Some of them are bright, some of them are dumb
A real Paige Turner

>>13725671
Young love hurts the most. Tell him to hang in there, don’t lose hope and that he should learn to not fall so easily.
Wish I had a nice fiction piece that could sum all this up. I’m sure there is one.