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Books exploring the pit of despair that is life?

>> No.7190685

King Lear. Blood Meridian. Ulysses.

>> No.7190688

Life isn't a pit of despair unless you make it one!

Just find something you love and let it kill you!

>> No.7190697

>>7190688
>Life isn't a pit of despair unless you make it one!

No-one chooses to be miserable.

>> No.7190702

>>7190697
I know.

Miserable people just haven't chosen to be happy yet

>> No.7190704

read the sticky

>> No.7190708

>>7190702
>casuistry

Presented with a choice, no-one would choose anything but happiness.

>> No.7190713

>>7190708
Well choose happiness you pleb
Noone stopping you but yourself

>> No.7190715

>>7190708
Miserable people don't want to be happy. It's easy to be happy you just have to go out and live life

>> No.7190724

>>7190715
>>7190713
Are you familiar with a little thing causality?

>> No.7190730

>>7190724
Yeah
You have to cause yourself to be happy! It's all possible with the power of the mind :)

>> No.7190738

MALIGNANTLY USELESS

better to never have been

arthur soapandshower

sublimation

crime &/OR PUNISHMENT

the buddha

>> No.7190743

>>7190738
>better to never have been
Sophocles said it best. Always start with the Greeks.

>> No.7190750

>tfw no qt3.14 hostile frog trap gf

>> No.7190752

>>7190715
being happy requires people to be able to have certain things. certain relationships (friendship and romantic), some level of material comfort that is amenable to them (don't have to be rich, just have basic stuff to the extent you don't have to worry), a routine they find somewhat enjoyable or at least bearable (a job they like, or at least don't dislike, for example).

some people are not able to get any of these things for reasons they have little direct control over.

>> No.7190756

>>7190752
Yeah I know I'm really depressed
I was just pretending to be optimistic ;)

Read The Last Messiah. It's not a book obviously, but it's good and short.

>> No.7190760

Every and all of them.


In some sense.

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120 Days of Sodom. Pit of despair, pit of semen, it's all the same, really.

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>>7190681
Journey to the End of the Night.

/thread.

>> No.7191004

>>7190752
What makes priviledged people happy is precisely the unhappiness of the Miserables.

t. Victor Hugo.

also,
>There will always be unhappiness.
>What we as a rich country should end is misery.
Hugo

>> No.7191270

Notes from the Underground. I don't think you're suppose to empathize with the MC as much as I did...Dosto probably wanted him to be seen as absurd and pathetic. But he wasn't. He was the essence of my suffering.

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>>7190681
>pit of despair that is life

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>>7190752
>>being happy requires people to be able to have certain things. certain relationships (friendship and romantic), some level of material comfort that is amenable to them (don't have to be rich, just have basic stuff to the extent you don't have to worry), a routine they find somewhat enjoyable or at least bearable (a job they like, or at least don't dislike, for example).
pure muricuck ideology.

>> No.7191296

>>7190752
Being happy requires you to be just stupid enough for your environment.

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>> No.7191318

>>7191291
Money doesn't make rich people happy. [It does poor people]

>> No.7191329

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA3-kDOg_QU

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>>7190724
What is determinism for 500? Misery is something you are conditioned into being, you can't just decide to be happy, you need to be conditioned into being able to decide such a thing. Plenty of people are fundamentally incapable of escaping unhappiness.

>> No.7192575

>>7190688
i've been trying to get the girl i love to kill me, but for some reason she just got a restraining order instead

>> No.7192600

>>7190738
>arthur soapandshower

10/10

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>>7190681

>> No.7192662

>>7190681
literally all of them

>> No.7193809

>>7190697
Disagree. Outlook is everything and misery is self-affirming.

>> No.7195409

lin yutang - the importance of living

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>>7190997

>/thread.

Cute.

>> No.7195791

>2015
>still going through an existential crisis

Depression is so passe now, OP. Get with the times already.

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>>7195791

And here I thought it was making a successful comeback after experiencing a slight dip in popularity following the 'economic recovery'. What's in vogue now?

>> No.7195820

>>7195791
what's in, cat?

>> No.7195883

>>7190681
The Road

>> No.7196127

>>7192575
S(h)ame here. I asked her countless times to put my life to an end, that everything would be alright and so on. How ungenerous can these chicks be?

>> No.7196841

>>7190688
I love this pit of despair though.