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Basically title. Can I get some recommendations for books of that kind

>> No.22206134

>>22206125
You'll get some recs but please understand that you will never have sex. Books can't change that, they can only help you cope.

>> No.22206144

>>22206125
The book of life, go outside.

>> No.22206151

>>22206125
Whitman
Nietzsche
Atkinson

>> No.22206206

>>22206144
>>22206134
Guys I just wanted RECS why you gotta do this to me

>> No.22206217

>>22206125
meditate by marcus
rules for life by dr jb peterson
rich dad poor dad by that asian guy whose name i cant fucking remember

>> No.22206236

>>22206206
Emerson: Self-reliance

>> No.22206309

>>22206236
Beautiful!

>> No.22206356

Infinite Jest

>> No.22206428

>>22206125
Fitzgerald. Read the Great Gatsby if you haven't already, seriously.

>> No.22206504

>>22206428
What do you read after that when that's the last book you've read?

>> No.22206699
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The Gita. The dharma of the kshatriya is to fight desu. Either fight and enjoy the material plane or die and live in the heavenly plane.

>> No.22207223

>>22206504
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Capote or if you want something more obscure try The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies. It starts with The Fifth Business which is fairly stand alone.

>> No.22207226

>>22206125
East of Eden by Steinbeck

>> No.22207227

Twelve rules for life + Beyond order by Jordan Peterson

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>>22206699
Came here to post this. Bhagavad-Gita changed my life. Meditate, read the Gita, and watch the transformation.

>> No.22207243

>>22206125
The enchiridion and discourses of Epictetus, read the oxford, penguin, or robin Waterfield versions with more modern English.

>> No.22207252
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The Beautiful Room Is Empty by Edmund White

>> No.22207254

>>22206217
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius can be considered a bit confusing for someone not already familiar with Stoicism, it is after all just a guys personal diary, not intended for anyone else to read.

>> No.22207378

>>22206134
He can pay for a prostitue, so a sex option is available to him at any moment. More appropriate would be to say that he will never be a woman or be truly loved

>> No.22207533

>>22206125
The New Testament and the wisdom literature of the Old Testament but unironically
Plutarch's Lives
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Stoner
Montaigne's Essays
Plato's Works

>> No.22207543

Steppenwolf, easy read.,

>> No.22207881

>>22206699
seems kinda un aryan to do one or the other bro

>> No.22207906

>>22206125
Aethiests be like.

If ive never seen pussy then it must not be real.

>> No.22207937

>>22206144
AKA my diary (but btw he's right)

>> No.22208639

space trilogy by clive staples lewis

>> No.22209372

>>22206125
The Trivium by Sister Miriam Joseph.

>> No.22209379

>>22206125
Knausgaard My Strugle series, with every book I feel like my maturity increases

>> No.22209423
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22209423

>>22206125
history has no meaning
only life has meaning

>> No.22209477

>>22206428
GG sucks ass. I think Jews push it in burger schools to discourage independent reading.