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In The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann placed youth and beauty above all qualities. Marcel Proust, at the end of Time Regained, concluded that what the writer needed was not intellectual conversations but 'light affairs with young girls in bloom'. Houellebecq famously wrote that:
>adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full sense of the word. The attractile drives are unleashed around the age of thirteen, after which they gradually diminish, or rather they are resolved in models of behaviour which are, after all, only constrained forces. The violence of the initial explosion means that the outcome of the conflict may remain uncertain for years; this is what is called a transitory regime in electrodynamics. But little by little the oscillations become slower, to the point of resolving themselves in mild and melancholic long waves; from this moment on all is decided, and life is nothing more than a preparation for death. This can be expressed in a more brutal and less exact way by saying that man is a diminished adolescent.
Friends, parties, social experiences, sexual experiences with women my age, all the things a normal, developing brain needs. I wasted all 4 years of high school and college hiding from everyone, now my chances are gone. People my age are getting married, I have no outlets to even meet women or make friends. My life is over, I wasted it. Every day is the same, I work, come home and rot. I wasted my life. People told me to start reading more to try gaining new perspective but after reading Mann, Proust and Houellebecq, I am now just more bitter and resentful at the world for being ostracized and for what I missed out on. Aside from those three, who are some other writers who highlight the importance of social and sexual experiences during one's youth?

>> No.18480717

>>18480708
have sex

>> No.18480718

Just hire a prostitute. You think you’re the first person this has ever happened to?

>> No.18480721

>>18480708
Yes... use your hatred... let it consume you...

>> No.18480723

How old are you OP?

My book recommendation is The Portrait of Dorian Gray

>> No.18480725

>>18480708
I did the same OP. But it's not too late to have juvenile experiences, you just need to find people who aren't locked up in adulthood. Unfortunarely, those people are homeless, drug users, and imbeciles.
>.t administered hippie camp/network in Los Angeles

>> No.18480732

>>18480718
>You think you’re the first person this has ever happened to?
"You're not special" is the dumbest response. Who cares if other people are in the same boat? He doesn't experience life as them, he experiences it as him.

>> No.18480736

>>18480732
It’s actual the best response, it’s meant to convey the reality of a solution, you’re just too bitter and jaded to acknowledge it

>> No.18480739

>>18480708
Time to get into anime sluts.

>> No.18480745

>>18480708
>Aside from those three, who are some other writers who highlight the importance of social and sexual experiences during one's youth?
Why do you want your misery to be reaffirmed? This mindset doesn't make any sense, it's as if you thrive on your own suffering

>> No.18480746

>>18480739
they're not real.

>> No.18480755

>>18480708

>What is it, Raphaël, that is most precious about them? -Their beauty? he suggested. -It's not their beauty, I can tell you that much; it isn't their vagina either, nor even their love; because all these disappear with life itself. And from now on you can possess their life. Launch yourself on a career of murder this very evening; believe me, my friend, it's the only way still open to you. When you feel these women trembling at the end of your knife, and begging for their young lives, then will you truly be the master; then will you possess them body and soul. Perhaps you will even manage, prior to their sacrifice, to obtain various succulent favours from them; a knife, Raphaël, is a powerful ally. He was staring long and hard at the couple who were intertwined as they slowly turned around the dance floor; one of the pseudo-Wromque's hands encircled the half-caste's waist, the other was resting on his shoulder. Softly, almost timidly, he said to me, `I'd rather kill the guy.' I knew then that I'd won; I suddenly relaxed and refilled our glasses. -Well then, I exclaimed, what's stopping you? Why yes! Get the hang of it on a young nigger! In any case they're going to leave together, the thing looks cut and dried.

>You'll have, of course, to kill the guy before getting a piece of the woman. As it happens I've a knife in the front of the car.

https://youtu.be/SfxgB0_IUoI

>> No.18480757

>>18480745
So far I haven't read any sufficient refutations.

>> No.18480758

>>18480745
> it's as if you thrive on your own suffering
I think you just made sense of it anon.
don’t feel bad for OP, though. He’s just another 4chan incel who would rather stay comfortable gathering (You)s than just simply going out and trying to solve his problems.

>> No.18480764

>>18480745
Suffering is truth

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>>18480708
Unironically banged 3 different women last week and still want to kms

>there is no cure for the human predicament but death

>> No.18480775

>>18480746
That's the appeal, yes.

>> No.18480776

>>18480708
Sounds like you're a presexual-pedophile, after juvenile kicks to soothe arrested development. Sex isn't some panacea, if you've ever masturbated...that's pretty much it; if you want generic sex, find an escort service. What you're really after is a shallow, but self-affirming, sort of bond with someone younger than yourself. That can be destructive - the asymmetry present in that kind of relationship is mutually banal and icky. (Read Lolita)

>> No.18480783

Take it to r9k. Also idk where you got that Magic Mountain take from

>> No.18480792

>>18480708
You've made this exact thread before.

>> No.18480803

>>18480708
If you're so bothered by missing out, why are still continuing you current mode of operation? Lamenting your past won't make your present any less bad, so why not do your best and at least try these things now. Or, if you think you've truly missed out and your life is as miserable as you think it is, why not end your suffering by committing suicide?

>> No.18480844

>>18480803
Its too late, its over.

>> No.18480862

>>18480764
Intentionally bringing it upon yourself is not