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>> No.19376987

I didn’t find this book depressing.

>> No.19376988
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>> No.19376990

>>19376987
Not everyone understand it.

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>> No.19376999

>>19376988
I didn’t find this book depressing.

>> No.19377003

>>19376999
Up until the very end, I did.

>> No.19377005

>>19376998
Ah yes, i must read this since the last time you recommanded it to me. Seems basically like the western gnostic equivalent of the buddhist dukkha, right?

>> No.19377026
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Dangerous read after a break-up, lost love

>> No.19377047

>>19377026
Yeah, this fucked me up

>> No.19377054

>>19376984
Why do some people find this book life affirming?

>> No.19377062

>>19377054
Because he shows (rightly in my opinion) that there is a way out
People just forget the following little detail: you need the strength of a Jesus or a Buddha to take it

>> No.19377076

>>19377003
It was comforting to see someone else had formed a similar conception of history as I had

>>19376991
Uh oh. On my list

>> No.19377095

>>19377076
>butterfly adores Perlman and us about to take the kragpill
God, when will you just marry me already?

>> No.19377097

>>19377054
>>19377062
>Difficult, perhaps even impossible to take, is the way, I said, the only way to salvation, and it is certain that the majority of us will always prefer, to consolidate their meager assurances, to continue to sleep rather than to wake up: "But men are like the one who dreams of getting up and who, realizing that he is still lying down, does not get up but goes back to dreaming that he is getting up", while thus, Michelstaedter continues, "without getting up and without ceasing to dream, he continues to suffer from the vivid image that disturbs the peace of his sleep and from the immobility that renders vain the action of which he dreams" (p. 72).
>And the author continues, not leaving in peace the one to whom he addresses, imagining well that the men, almost all the men, will not fail to oppose him a multitude of arguments which are so many cries betraying their fear, the fear of the death which pushes them to live without persuasion (cf. p. 77): "My legs are wobbly, and your path is impassable", and to these he replies: "There are the lame and the able-bodied - but man must strengthen his own hocks to walk - and go forward where there is no road. By the usual ways men walk in a circle that has no beginning and no end; they come and go, they compete, they hurry, busy as ants - perhaps they confuse each other, - but even if they walk, they are still where they were, for all places are the same, in the valley with no end. Man must make his way to life, not to move among others, to take others with him, not to claim the rewards that are not in the way of men" (p. 73).

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>>19377097
Are we really such sick, miserable creatures we need the strength of literal Aeons to overcome a little pussy, a little tasty food, a little comfort and recognition? God help us all.

>> No.19377157

>>19377123
>to overcome a little pussy, a little tasty food, a little comfort and recognition
U don't get it. Read the first chapter, only 5 pages

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Depressing throughout but uplifting at the end.

>> No.19377178

>>19377157
stupid fucking wanker, I was the one who shilled this book to you while you cucks were still reading Jung and Lolita. Trust me. I get it.

>> No.19377209

>>19377178
>I was the one who shilled this book to you while you cucks were still reading Jung and Lolita
No

>> No.19377392

Bump

>> No.19377403

>>19376984
My diary desu

>> No.19377452

>>19376984
how was it depressing? he is mostly discussing platonism and presocratics. did you even read it?

>> No.19377462

They tend to aay either "Heath of Darkness" or "Sorrows of Young Werther" is the most depressing book.
I have read both,didn't really had an effect on me

>> No.19377497

>>19377452
Did YOU even read it?