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3149029 No.3149029 [Reply] [Original]

>TFW you're afraid to read because of how a book might change you and what ideas it might present to you

You can thank Ellison and Lovecraft. Is there any classic literature out there that just makes you feel good about life and being alive?

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>>3149029

>Mfw I just read through the entirety of Walden and now have a desire to give away all of my meaningless steam games and possessions in exchange for bare necessities and books.

>> No.3149053

No. Smart people are all bummed out and their only solace is found in bringing others into their misery.

>> No.3149968

I'm bumping, but I'm doing it ironically.

>> No.3149977

Nietzsche

>> No.3150306

Romanticism, brah. Stick to that.

>> No.3150324

Are you really that impressionable? What are you, a child? If the thought of reading a book, because of the ways in which it may change you, is in any way scary you may need to reevaluate your life and how you personally identify.

>> No.3150407

>>3150324
I'm afraid to read dawkins because I don't want to become a cunt

>> No.3150411

>>3150407
With that attitude it sounds like it's too late.

>> No.3150421

>tfw Spring

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>>3150421
forgot my face

>> No.3151126

Shouldn't you have that feel when you read things on the internet or watch T.V or talk to people?

>> No.3151135

Read some Ligotti

>> No.3151161

Hesse always makes me feel good.

Especially because I can kind of relate to the protagonists, who are usually rather depressed/confused over life and by the end have a sort of epiphany to try and find happiness for themselves.

>> No.3153433

MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO MOTHERFUCKERS. TRAGIC SENSE OF LIFE, SHIT NEVER GETS MENTIONED HERE. GODDAMN.

>> No.3153466 [DELETED] 

walt whitman, leaves of grass
goddamn that nigger was excited about everything

>> No.3153478

>>3151126
>>3150324
STOP MAKING GOOD POINTS TOWARDS OP, HE MIGHT CHANGE FORMS!

>> No.3153485

>Read Andre Gide's Fruits of the Earth
>Travel the world, eat all kinds of fruits, watch the sunset, appreciate man-love and feel the joys of the fever of pleasure making each moment eternal

>> No.3153498

schopenhauer, the indestructibility of our essential nature by death
goddamn that nigger was excited about everything

i've heard capitalized things about miguel de unamuno