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Books about accepting that you will never be someone important

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>> No.20027000

>>20026556
Just remember that it's nice to be important but more important to be nice.

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>>20026556
My diary desu

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Technically, nobody has ever been important.

>> No.20027104

>>20026556
Any book that we would recommend about never being someone important is written by someone important

>> No.20027108

>>20027037
Fully disagree I'm vital for my people and civilization

>> No.20027292

>>20027000
No, it's not.

>> No.20027293

Stoner
A Confederacy of Dunces
Crime and Punishment

>> No.20027298

>>20026556
I don't feel that way. I'm a useless neet but I still think the world needs me and would be lost without me

>> No.20027334

>>20027292
No, he’s right.

>> No.20027372

>>20026556
don quixote

>> No.20027394

>>20026556
Either accept it naturally or don’t. Don’t brainwash yourself into believing it. What disgusting behavior

>> No.20027702

>>20026556
The bible

>> No.20027709

Jude the Obscure

>> No.20027716

I'm going to start calling myself the inventor of pants until it catches on.

>> No.20027962

>>20027394
>What disgusting behavior
Why is wanting to feel like you matter disgusting

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>>20026556
Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster, it's a kind of a magical realist take on the gifted kid turned burned out loser phenomenon. Makes me cry like a bitch every time I read it

>> No.20028136

No one by themselves is important, it is the small affects that everyone has on each other's lives that keep making significant changes in this world