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what are some books that have always stayed with you? the sort of books that you constantly flip and read through and are always fascinated by. for me is pic related, zhuangzi, and that book of artaud's selected writings

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>>11561109
What is this book about?

>> No.11561137

Book of Disquiet is also one of mine OP.

Suicide by Edouard Leve has stuck with me also

>> No.11561138

>>11561109
Artaud's plays are endlessly fascinating for me. Likewise, In Search of Lost Time is long enough to always dip in and have something new to read

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>>11561109
The Unbearable Lightness of Being. I read it as a teenager and when I picked it up again a few years ago, I didn't realize how deeply I internalized a lot of the messages in this book.

Also, the poetry of T.S. Eliot. I memorized The Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock in its entirety at one point in time and I can still recite whole passages (but not the entire thing).

>> No.11561355

Le Pain Nu and Ancient Mariner have taught me all I need to know about day-to-day suffering.

>> No.11562017

>>11561127
Literally nothing, it's the 'factless autobiography' of Bernardo Soares. Great read though.

>> No.11562025

>>11561127
it is basically the quintessential my diary desu
>I dreamily and digestively drowse. I have time, between synaesthesias. And it's extraordinary to think that, if I were asked right now what I want for this short life, I could think nothing better than these long slow minutes, this absence of thought and emotion, of action and almost o sensation itself, this inner sunset of dissipated desire. And then it occurs to me, almost without thinking, that most if not all people live like this, with greater or lesser consciousness, moving forward or standing still, but still with the very same indifference towards ultimate aims, the same renunciation of their personal goals, the same watered-down life.

>> No.11562655

The Bible

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Pic related
Also Book of Disquiet