/lit/ - Literature

you will never get to run with the bulls :(

Hey, guys, just a reminder that Quentin is a troll. He was also responsible for the destruction of the planet Alderaan, so he's a pretty bad guy all around.

>>1732896
I made a decision a long time ago that I'm going to become a journalist, move to France, and take a trip to Spain for the running of the bulls with my unrequited love interest and our group of alcoholic friends.

I like to think I'm Jake Barnes but when I examine myself I am more of a Robert Cohn.............................................................................................oh well

>>1732907
You're a terribly pathetic Jewish novelist with a flattened nose?

>>1732911
no, I'm a romantic in a world without morals. I don't belong here

>>1732916
You should make like an Ernest Hemingway and shoot yourself.

>>1732917
No i don't support suicide

>>1732920
You should revise your thoughts on the matter. Honestly, what's so evolutionarily great about living anyways?

>>1732920
suicide is an awfully romantic action.


"I once knew a young suicide. I cannot remember what disappointment in love it was which induced him to send a bullet carefully into his heart. I have no notion of what literary temptation he had succumbed to when he drew on a pair of white gloves before the shot. But I remember having felt, on learning of this sorry show, an impression not of nobility but of lack of dignity. So! Behind that attractive face, beneath that skull which should have been a treasure chest, there had been nothing, nothing at all. Unless it was a vision of some silly little girl indistinguishable from the rest".

- Antoine de Saint Exupery

>>1732924
I want to travel. I haven't been many places. I wanna go to Egypt, and Italy. And I wanna see the castles in the UK. There are a lot of nice looking places, or at least places that look nice that I want to visit. And I want to get a girlfriend, I want to get married and get children. I think that I would be a good husband once I got a job. I'm not sure if I would be a good father at first because it would take some time getting used to and I am a slow learner. I need to learn to drive still, I haven't done that. I went driving a while ago and almost crashed. It was scary but I still need to learn. I think it's amazing how we have cars, don't you think. And love has always been something people have wanted. How do you know you exist? Descartes has that whole I think, therefore I am. But I think "I feel, therefore I am" is more accurate. How else does someone know that you think? You only exist for yourself if you knowing that you think verifies your existence, and that is selfish. So you need to feel something, and be able to share that feeling with someone. And that feeling is love. I think love verifies our existence, and I think that's what's our purpose is. And that is evolutionary if you think about it, because as I am growing up from being a child I really want to love someone and live life. I think I'd be a lot better if I was in love.

>>1732935
NEAR
FAR
WHEREEEEEEEEEEEEEEVER YOU AARE
I BELIEEEEEVE THAT THE HEART DOES
GO OOooooon

>>1732938
i told you i was a romantic

>>1732935
trust me - love is not so great, and unrequited love is enough to make you want to put a bullet in your head despite however much you yearn to live.

Do not seek it.

>>1732940
I'm just fucking with you, broski.

There lots of different kinds of romance. The clingy, in-love-with-some-girl kind, see:
>>1732929
is definitely the worst kind. You'll get over it some day, and you'll be happy you did :)

>>1732938
on a some what related note, i've been singing this song really loudly in my car with the windows down when I drive places

people think i'm crazy.

THAT BOOK BELONGS TO ERNEST HEMINGWAY.

>>1732983
Ernest Hemingway is dead and so are all of his grandchildren

>>1732987
THEN IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM

>>1732983
>>1732987
>>1732991

This is why I like you /lit/.

>>1732965
oh that song was in titanic what a great movie

>>1733003
>titanic
>great movie
choose one

Haha, he has no penis

>>1732941

I've been through unrequited love more times than I'd ever care to admit.

Only an oversensitized pussy would want to bite the bullet because of that.

Nothing but contempt for this kind of people

>>1733005
what do you think he thought of while he was on mars

>>1733115
I don't think you've ever truly been in love. A real man dies for love.

>>1733118
i don't think that you understand love...

>>1733125
Then tell me, love guru. What is love?

>>1733118
Or he kills for it. I had to run a man through with a rapier on the cliffs of Dover for the girl I'm with.
this is the life of Vdubby

>>1733129
mfw

>>1733127
humm, don't know how to transalte the idea. but its something rational; to see in the loved one supreme and absolute values. still, you can't define it, but can intuit it

>>1733136
>love
>rational
Nope.avi

>>1733139
yup. you are confusing to be in love and to love. maybe it is diferent on english. but in spanish is quite clear. amar(to love) esta enamorado(to be in love). to be in love isn't rational. but to love is.

>>1733145
I don't speak Spanish. You want I call La Migra?

>>1733150
so as you wish, that doesn't change love

>>1733129
10/10 would read again

>>1733154
you sound like a socialist.

>>1733160
why?

>>1733164
"Why?" he asked. He shot him a glance, as a smile played on his lips. Yes, this was definitely an appeasing bolshevik. He probably also smoked reefer and listened to jazz music.

>>1733150
You're not fucking clever.

>>1733168
jazz is ok. reefer... not even once

>>1733145
To love is, if anything, less rational than to be in love. With love, all betrayal is already forgiven before the fact. To be in love is to hold a set of what you believe to be absolute values in high regard, and it is only after this fantasy is destroyed that you might be able to start to love the person behind them.

>>1733180
if there is fantasy, then it isn't love, but the ilussion of it. that's why you can only love what you know.

>>1733186
>if there is fantasy, then it isn't love, but the ilussion of it.
That's why that's being in love, and not love itself.
>that's why you can only love what you know.
You can only ever know the tip of the iceberg. But to love, you must love even the dark and murky recesses of the person, rather than pretend they're not there and filling in the blanks with fantasy.

>>1733193
yes, that is correct. loving someone implies that you want them to be who they are.

>>1733201
really nigger

>>1733202
banned!

>>1733207

>>1733117