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Books on how to cope with the unrelenting, merciless evil of the world?
I've realised that there is no such thing as good. It's a lie, an illusion. It doesn't exist. There exist only differing shades of evil and awfulness. Even the lightest shade, love, is tinged with selfishness.

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> Even the lightest shade, love, is tinged with selfishness.
Retroactively refuted by God

>> No.20806155

"Crime of the Nauseus Man who was War and Plague" by Alexander S. Eeth

"Flying over the Doomed City with Little Anna" by William Cooper.

"Three Demons Gone with the Evening Quietness on Don Quixote" by the Feed Brothers.

>> No.20806164

>>20806129
Suffering dulls over time. Eventually your agony will become a generalised malaise and sense of hoplelesness.

>> No.20806174

>>20806155
"In search of an Invitation for a Idiot", Dwight Irving Late.

"A Hundred Years of Miserable Confessions in Monte Cristo", by Ronald Ernst Nataniel Thomas Free.

>> No.20806192

>>20806174
"Interview with Lost Mother; or, The Whale" by Niles de Ingers and Gregoriy Gregoryevich Erasm-Romanoff

"Ride the Storm of Marble in a Cherry Pavilion" by Adolf Nellsdorf Utsuki-Subaru.

>> No.20806215

"A Tale of Two Princes: Provincial Manners of Denmark", Osmand Potts.

"Notes on Pride and Trembling" by Isabel Santiago.

"The Great Catcher on a Fair-22", by Anton Falmier G. Gottlieb.

>> No.20806234

>>20806215
"Farewell to Slaughterhouses", Ursula W. Ulmer

"The Picture of Oliver Grapes, or the Modern Old Man", by Charles Uther Cunny.

>> No.20806245

>>20806129
On the Suffering of the World by Schopenhauer

READ IT. NOW.

>> No.20806318

>>20806129
that would be easily deconstructed if you were smart. youre not, though.

>> No.20806322

I’ll be the one that recommends the Bible. Specifically the New Testament.

Please just trust me on this.

>> No.20806324

The gnostics.

>> No.20806331

>>20806215
>>20806234
I'd add Pretentious Angst by Ernest Milton as well, it's a classic that everyone with literary erudition of course has read, but it bears repetition.
Very good choices.

>> No.20806335

>>20806129
Sophomoric take, OP.
You’ve judged all endeavor to be some form of “evil”. Labels, words that you invent should be dropped to see the world for what it is. You seem to want a Barney the Dinosaur world

>> No.20806388

commit evil yourself to make even

>> No.20806593

>>20806129
Suicide or you don't. Sorry anon, reality's a bitch.