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Anonymous Wed Aug 26 08:47:07 2015 No.7031708 [Reply] [Original]

Can you pals recommend some literature on la joie de vivre, on joyful life?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 09:11:31 2015 No.7031760 spinoza

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 09:13:57 2015 No.7031769 sueton

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 09:14:47 2015 No.7031772 Wittgenstein

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 09:24:13 2015 No.7031793 File: 481 KB, 1200x1541, fn.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7031708 freddy fun guy nietzsche

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 09:28:25 2015 No.7031800 >>7031708 Henry Miller brims with that.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 13:00:54 2015 No.7032322 heidegger

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 19:09:57 2015 No.7033370 >joy

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 19:13:00 2015 No.7033378 >>7031800 I thought of Arthur Miller for a moment and had meself a chuckle.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 19:18:35 2015 No.7033400 if you don't definitely need to read to find it. just ride. but just in case i recommend wilde and epicurus

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 19:24:44 2015 No.7033422 >>7033400 what are you saying?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 19:36:43 2015 No.7033455 >>7033422 reading to find a life of joy is a bit silly, isn't it? if you're trying to find a life of real joy you'll be outside falling in the lap of something strange and exciting like drugs... lol

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 19:58:22 2015 No.7033513 File: 58 KB, 384x384, unnamed (2).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7033455 I'm not reading to find joy, i want see other people's ( beautiful ) portrayals of it. The textual equivalent of a matisse, ideally

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 20:14:58 2015 No.7033560 File: 77 KB, 736x736, 1509790_10205722712851601_1393653033229320653_n.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7033513 okay that's good. same here

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 20:56:53 2015 No.7033678 literally la joie de vivre by zola

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 21:07:38 2015 No.7033723 >>7033455 I'm not sure drugs is the best way into joie de vivre tbh. It'd be something like being grateful for the rain that fall on you while you're strolling in some wide street and there are tree around you.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 27 05:01:14 2015 No.7035206 >>7033560 >that pic unironic lol thanks for the dubious suggestions everyone else

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 27 06:41:56 2015 No.7035400 Pollyanna series. Or, try some Primo Levi