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Post literature that made you cry

For me it’s the Iliad. The final scene between Priam and Achilles brings floods of tears.

>> No.18494752

>>18494059
OP's diary

>> No.18494764

The last stanza of Tennyson's Ulysses always gets me.

>> No.18494849

>>18494059
That is not how I would imagine Achilles

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>>18494059
Book of Daniel, Death in Venice and Moby Dick

>> No.18495048

>>18494849
Achilles had golden hair, this is Roman whitewash

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>>18494059
>The final scene between Priam and Achilles brings floods of tears
Same anon, my tears were running down from my eyes when that good and sad father supplicates to Achiles for the corpse of his son.

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>>18494059
Also the Martín Fierro by José Hernández. The scene when the best friend of Fierro, the gaucho Cruz dies, because of an epidemic.

>> No.18496319

Frieza killing Krillin.