/lit/ - Literature

>>22530330
I used to like Kierkegaard but he basically ruined all my friendships

>my best friend has been going through hard times facing social disconnect and a lack of determination
>he calls me and everyone else to his house
>this fucker staged his own intervention
>Shows us the noose he tied as he sobs and explains in detail his ennui and desperation
>We all work together to explain to him why he shouldn't do it
>he looks at me, his dearest and oldest friend, dead in the eyes
>I screw my courage to the sticking place and meat his gaze
>If you hang yourself you'll regret it, I say
>He cries and finally lets go of the noose, the tension lifts and we all breathe easily
>Mission achieved we all go h-
>I can't, I am compelled to expound the full philosophy
>However, if you do not hang yourself you will also regret it
>shrieks of rage as I get driven out by harridans who don't understand the struggles of the aesthete
>Find out he attempted to OD on sleeping pills that night

Fuck Kierkegaard and fuck them for not returning my moka express I brought in strictest confidence.

*blocks your path*

>>10606342
I can love the path to health you wish for, by solving your existential nervousness by making art; are you ready for short-comings by your work going unloved from the mob in -atleast- your own life time? Is the pursuit of art for your own sake enough to sustain you? I hope it is so, I would wish the best in it. I also hope the moneyside of your work will not hate your thoughts; but it happens to the best of us, maybe you will succeed in overcoming your life's dragon.

How do I become the knight of faith?

>>9532523
We aren't moral supremacists, bro. We just strive to be complete human beings, like God intended us to be. Someday you'll strive too.

What are the required readings for this mofo, assumimg that my knowledge of the g r e e k s is fairly solid, and that I'm familiar with the main concepts of the main German Idealists?

Stop caring about inherent value.

>I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away — yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit ——————————— and wanted to shoot myself.

What did he mean by this

Kierkegaard is a magnitude better.

>Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.