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Anonymous Wed Dec 30 13:53:30 2020 No.17157279 [Reply] [Original]

What books have genuinely made you learn something valuable, or instilled in you a moral/life lesson that really has stuck with you?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 14:17:54 2020 No.17157533 >>17157279 You should probably ask which haven't.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 14:19:58 2020 No.17157548 Harry Potter

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 14:23:15 2020 No.17157584 >>17157533 This.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 14:24:53 2020 No.17157602 >>17157279 The Bhagavad Gita. I started thinking of Karma through the lens of chaos theory—allowing each action to have grand consequences.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 14:39:27 2020 No.17157745 great gatsby taught me the true nature of women

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 14:52:19 2020 No.17157879 File: 159 KB, 800x1224, 1608715722556.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17157279 this one.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 14:53:06 2020 No.17157893 Stoicism showed me a lot of valuable things that I have totally failed to apply, again and again.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 14:54:48 2020 No.17157912 never trust city slickers

Anonymous Wed Dec 30 14:57:47 2020 No.17157956
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>>17157893
>"hey bro, you should only worry about things you have control over."
>"Alright Marcus, I'll keep that in mind. Thanks bro."
>"Hey Marcus, you remember that thing you told me last year? Well I completely failed to apply it again and ruined another situation..."
>"It's alright, bro. Just reject your sense of injury and you'll be alright again to try and be better next time."
>"Thanks, Marcus."

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 15:08:10 2020 No.17158059 >>17157279 Montaigne is probably the best damn writer on humility- essential reading ro improve the life of pseuds and the perma-angry.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 15:09:25 2020 No.17158067 >>17157279 The shallows by Carr. got recced here. really an exceptionally absorbing and informative non-fiction

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 15:12:07 2020 No.17158085 >>17158059 He also says to never get into arguments with people unless they're a "champion worthy of [your] steel" i.e. don't argue with retards

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 15:13:28 2020 No.17158099 >>17158085 A wise man told me never argue with fools, because people from a distance cant tell who is who.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 15:15:44 2020 No.17158115 "What Is Man?" by Mark Twain.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 30 15:25:59 2020 No.17158221 >>17157279 Stranger in a Strange Land.

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