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Literature to put life's miseries and disappointments in perspective?

>> No.18977378
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18977378

Harry Potter, especially Chamer of Secrets, and Order of Phoenix onwards.

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Might be a meme recommendation but pic related made me feel ashamed about being a whiny bitch and encouraged me to toughen up.

>> No.18977484

>>18977363
read this right now
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Studies_in_Pessimism/On_the_Sufferings_of_the_World

>> No.18977505

>>18977363
I swear, every segment of Western history is a doomer meme

>> No.18977512

>>18977363
More out of touch Christian meme and astroturfing? Learn to see trends, other anons

>> No.18977632

>>18977363
Try The Book of Disquiet
It's basically just random scraps of musings from Pessoa, very often pretty despondent and resigned. But I found it weirdly uplifting in a way, like yeah shit sucks but theres a real empathetic camaraderie in it.
Were all gonna make it bro

>> No.18977652

>>18977378
This unironically

>> No.18977965 [DELETED] 

>>18977363
For me it was Call of the Crocodile, but from what I've seen everyone's experiences with the books are different, some have even gone insane apparently.

>> No.18978017

>>18977632
>Were all gonna make it bro
No we won't

>> No.18978025

>>18978017
dubs confirm

>> No.18978046

>>18977363
>Lost his only cow
Why was this the saddest part to read?

>> No.18978147

Gulag Archipelago. Iris Chang's Rape of Nanking.