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>>9018687
>No man has the right to choose physical training over wisdom. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty of truth and wisdom while wasting time on the strength his body is capable of.

>>9018687
>get a bit unquiet by that feeling
Here we have the typical reader of books: picking unnecessarily complex words to seem more well-read and intelligent, when in fact it has the opposite effect and makes you look quite childish. I am embarrassed for you.

>>9018687
>And do you guys think it's possible to be an intellectual and physically active at the same time?

What, like reading a book while squatting? Maybe, try it out.

Now I'm being charitable with that interpretation. If what you meant was "can one be physically fit and well read at the same time?" The answer is of fucking course you retard. If you workout 4 hours a week for 2 years you'll be in better shape than 99% of the population, you have all the time you need you're shitposting on 4chan for christ's sake. Go to /fit/, read the sticky, SS is not a meme, go fucking lift.

>>9018660
Graham Greene's The End of the Affair

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>>9018660

>>9018679
Im thinking more classic stuff

He's one of the goats. I'd start with As I Lay Dying

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>>9018649
The prose is kind of hard, but all of his works are rewarding reads. I would start with a short story collection before getting in to his more popular novels to see what he's all about.

>>9018649
I stupidly choose to major in English literature and I took a class on Faulkner.
In the class we started with The Sound and The Fury and then we read Absalom Absalom Both are fucking amazing read The Sound and Fury first then read Absalom Absalom I think you are really going to enjoy it.

>>9018539
I know them feels anon. I've tried several times to fit in. Never could. Now I'm just The Stranger.

>>9018539
You are a member of a group, you're a 4chan user.

>>9018539
>tfw easily fit in but feel like a rat with no backbone

always the poofter never the poftee

>>9018541
>Reminding me why I come to this board
9/10

>>9018541
>implying Alfred Douglas wasn't a complete aggressive degenerate.

>>9018491
Kill yourself

pretty rude desu
Man brought a lot of old people happiness.

>>9019956
I'm glad to hear you make this claim for it must mean that you know what the nature of happiness is. Please tell me what it is for I have long wondered.

What a stupid dichotomy.

>>9018489
explain that too

c. are kinda both a product of an shape culture

King james, don't need a specific website

Nrsv oxford with apocrypha from amazon. If you're set on the kjv i hear good things about lattimores translation. Probably get that one from amazon too

KJV is a meme. It's only valuable if you're primarily interested in literary aspects of KJV, whose linguistic influence is indeed immense. If you want actual best English translation most true to original go for NASB.

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Me

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thread needs more ta-nehisi coates tbqh

contributing

"smart" is a pretty poorly defined concept

but in any case, pic profoundly unrelated

http://nonsite.org/editorial/the-case-against-reparations

author's name is Adolph reed, which might give one the wrong idea; he's a black leftist

>>9018460
>putting quotation marks on green text
Fucking retards should be gassed, desu.

>>9018553
Quotation marks are a spook.

But Hitler was objectively a god amongst men.

Why do you want to go insane anon?

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>>9018424
try to intuitively analyze this.

>>9018424
You'd probably fall asleep or at least become too exhausted to read.

>>9018409

masturbation

>>9018409
eat a cookie

the only honorable or reasonable pleasure is derived from a release of pain, or from pain being its source

>>9018400
t.breen

>>9018400
(We)

>>9018400
This was no better thought-out than a shitty Star Trek episode.

make it an edgy contrarian stance

wtf I hate the mountain goats now

Someone needs to Dead Souls or Ulysses Don Quixote for fuck's sakes.

You need to acknowledge that man's ability to discern good and evil is a sin and to fucking trust Jesus.

>someone somewhere disagrees with my views
>why do you guys do it?
Quality post.

>>9018336
>Anyone I've spoken with outside this site, who I know either goes here or is at least aware of the culture and mentality, just mocks his work and discards it as useless.
You fucking normie. You're not supposed to talk about 4chan in the real world.