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Books that give you hope or a reason to live?

So far I've read Siddhartha. I don't read much but I would like to start reading more and not being so depressed.

>> No.4112709

Anything by Schopenhauer

>> No.4112712

>>4112709
Where do I start to get the best experience?

>> No.4112713

>>4112712
studies in pessimism

>> No.4112718

>>4112713
Thank you friend.

>> No.4112719

>>4112709
Seneca's Letters from a Stoic, Aurelius' Meditations, Yutang's The Importance of Living, Watts' Tao: The Watercourse Way or The Wisdom of Insecurity

>> No.4112722

The Unnamable by Beckett

>> No.4112768

>>4112698
Then take my advice and don't try to read Nausea when recovering from your worst depression of the year.

>> No.4112774

>>4112698
Reading fantasy sparked in me the desire to read a ton more, it was like a gateway drug.

if you want something enjoyable to read but not heavy like The Brothers Karamazov or Grapes of Wrath try Way of Kings by Sanderson. The story there will pick you up.

>> No.4112865

>>4112698
The Island by Aldous Huxley made me feel weird. It's got a lot of Eastern Philosophy like siddartha, which gives you a sense of inner peace. but then the ending. man the ending is like an actual psychedelic experience. It leaves you with fucked up mixed feelings. I felt like everything was going to be okay, but I knew everything was not going to be okay.

>> No.4112892

meditations

a lot of Dostoevsky does that for me, even though I'm solidly atheist/apatheist

>> No.4112920

Diogenes Laertius's Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, especially the section on Diogenes of Sinope.

Also Emerson, Thoreau, Nietzsche, and any of the other quasi-Cynics.

>> No.4112925

never really got why white people found buddhism so inspiring

>> No.4112992

>>4112925
Because you can aspire to be a good person without depending on, or sucking cock on, clergy. At least here in the west.

>> No.4112996

>>4112925
Probably for reasons similar to why Asians find it so inspiring. Though, I would argue Westerners are in greater need of Buddhism than are Easterners.

>> No.4113005

where do dude be getting this book listing image making shits at

>> No.4113029

citadelle by exupery

pure wisdom, you should fucking read this shit, even though its unfinished and published posthumously.

>> No.4113031

>>4113029

in english its called "the wisdon of the sands"

>> No.4113036

A Short History of Decay by Emil Cioran.

>> No.4113179

andre kaminsky - kiebitz