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>>9032624
Strive for moderate happiness in a life with minimal vice obviously.

>>9032624
You can only (be) yourself by overcoming yourself

>>9032642
>happiness
>moderation

get a load of this faggot.

>>9032595
Catcher in the Rye?

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>>9032595
>Lolita
>Play

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picault is a graphic sexual book about school shootings which is written for plebs but loved by female teachers read:pleb women.

if you dont do extemp you are a fucking pseud

out of curiousity what state are you in?

>>9032569
http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?keyword=Tales+of+Mystery+and+Madness+grimly&mtype=B&hs.x=0&hs.y=0&hs=Submit

I call seconds peasant.

Hey OP did you check here sites?

http://gen.lib.rus.ec

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A few more examples

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This is a great book btw

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I paid $3.49 for the Easton Press version of Anna Karenina from a thrift store. People on eBay buy them for high prices, and EP still sells them for even higher, so yeah there's value in them.

They are, by far, the most well crafted books I've ever held. Full genuine leather covers, quality stitched binding, cloth inside cover, ribbon bookmark. They're definitely collector's editions, and higher quality than Everymeme's Library.

Personally I'm not too big on spending lots of money on a book I'll probably only read, at most, a handful of times. Paperbacks usually suffice for me. But if I come across a nice hardback for cheap like I did on this one, I'll pick it up.

The earlier translations are seriously fucked up. I didn't have a fucking clue what was going on in the first few pages of the copy of Practical Reason I borrowed. He's horribly inefficient at getting his point across, and shitty translations don't help.

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>>9032629
>He's horribly inefficient at getting his point across
Oh eternal Anglo

This is why you will never transcend your petty pragmatist/empiricist paradigmata

>>9032629

Yeah, I feel your pain, man.

I have already heard of how notoriously prolix and roundabout his writings were, but up to actually trying it I thought that reputation was built solely by butthurt amateurs who picked the wrong starting point, but he's really something else.

I tried his Critiques first just after reading my first Nietzche book and i plainly could not bear it. I have been trying to get on his teachings again but all the advice i get is to start from "Groundworks". Since my local scene here is so weak i thought i could get some clarification from /lit/.

>>9032517
what book are you going to read

>>9032517
probably

unironically has been my favourite book since i read it; makes you genuinely feel like you're in a bleary drug-addled fugue state after even just a few pages, and that feeling just sticks with you for a while

>>9032507
Who the fuck is Decline?

>>9032515
>He doesn't know about Oswald Spengler

Actually, he has it the wrong way around- Caesarism will bring back Western civilization.

>>9032315
http://oxfordbibliographiesonline.com/

best source when you want to read defining works in a subject area.

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Is this "bait"?

>>9032527
Even if it is, I am constantly shocked at posters on this board lacking the ability to find decent source material in fields they want to study.

>hikikomori
>studies a t a university
Kek, keep trying, senpai.

Just put yourself out there. :^)

Why would a "hikki" be outside of his room?

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>>9032233
Checked.

Ubermensch does what he wants. Betas continue in their habits, not understanding why.

>>9032233

You are Bad, and Mediocre. by Me

>>9032235
You're an asexual weenie who gets his pathetic satisfaction by slighting the big other. There is no ubermensch and you are no exception when you are still so blissfully ignorant of all the ways you are dependent on your habits. Easier to succumb than overcome of course..

How do you know that we don't?

>>9032200
Could I know that when we don't know what knowing means?

>>9032188
Whats wrong with on certainty?

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>good books
>defending Stalinism
>Stalinism
>good
>defending
>reality
>defending
>Stalinism
>good

>>9032115
is Haskell considered /lit/?

>>9032115
No, sorry to break it to you anon

Bumpinggggg

>>9032104
>Or something else along those lines
That was funny, I admit.

>>9032212
:)))

>>9032082
I suggest books by Wittgenstein. Unless there is some new meme philosopher called wittgeinstein that I am unaware of. If that is the case then I don't know how to help you op.

Start with the Greeks.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a good, free resource:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wittgenstein/

Need any info on the series before reading the pitch?

>>9032070
S-sure? What are you trying to accomplish? Critique? A producer? A cohort?

>>9033144
Mostly just looking for thoughts on it.