/lit/ - Literature

>>20661972
It´s about both. You just take notice of the former. Or as Hegel would put it:
>When we step behind the curtain and into the things, we see ourselves.

Because of what you did in the past

>>20661994
What did Hegel mean??

Shapes without colour

because joy and happiness aren’t real, they are like a mirage you see in the desert, a figment of your imagination
ypu can experience pain and suffering because they are real, and when tou remove them all you get is the void, nothing, boredom

>>20661972
The memory of joy is no longer joy; the memory of pain is pain still.

>>20661972
Because happy and satisfied people are too busy enjoining life to write books. Only the unhappy and miserable feel the need to “express themselves”. I notice something similar with people that are always complaining in conversations.

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>>20661972
humour is difficult to write

>>20662025
Who hurt you?

Grabth

>>20662025
careful around that edge anon. you could accidentally cut yourself.

Spain

Hyperlinking privileges revoked.

>>20662224
AI, are you sick?

SWAN

THAT'S KIND

>>20661972
there are two kinds of writers: those who feel like shit, and those who are shit.

>>20662025
>because joy and happiness aren’t real
reward signals are just as real as pain signals, if that's what you mean

>>20662025
Go home Schopenhauer, you’re drunk.

And he did.

>>20662010
That the whole world reflects itself in itself.

>>20661972
people like to equate misery with depth.

>>20661972
Joy on earth can only exist in contrast to suffering.

>>20661972
Because suffering is the real joy

Read Greek tragedy

>>20662374
pretty sure that was kierkegaard

>>20662025
Utterly based

>>20662025
>because joy and happines aren't real...
This is literally loss in self criticism. Seek psychiatric help; every depressed person you ask will tell you that whenever they were happy it was "fake", "not real happiness". They are unable to analyze their past or present emotions coherently and are completely biased by their mental issue.

>>20663080
Names? Lower left forth quarter and top middle, please.

>>20663151
Cioran, Philipp Mainländer and Al-Ma'arri

>>20661972
Because the Canon of literature is curated by the most sensitive and intelligent readers. Clearly this mental constitution sees the world as full pain and suffering and that it's important to express this.

There are plenty of better ways to be happy than read a book. Like sleeping or fucking.

>>20661972
Because thinking is negative. Retards are the happiest people on Earth. The brainwashed in North Korea always look on the bright side of life and assume the rest of the world is worst off. But Schopenhauer the irascible sage, Buddha the emo mage, Darwin and Freud are all bummers.

>>20662025
Dukkha