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>>8997912
I spend all of this time on the internet defending Catholicism and I don't even believe in God anymore. I legitimately have spent hours talking at lengths the basis for Catholic dogma and trying to get people to understand. I have told people to pray the rosary and see how they feel after that.

It's not for fun, either. I truly want them to believe. I want them to save themselves, but I don't know why I do it. It's not to convince myself, because I don't think I believe anymore. I haven't been to mass regularly in years, now. Nor have I taken any of the other Sacraments, but for some reason, something inside me makes me do this.

I know that if I died now, and I'm wrong, my sins are too good to save me. I feel like there's a part of me that wants to go back, but I can't because I know I'm going to fail again. My whole life has been cycles of me losing my faith and coming back and losing again. Every time I come back I know I'm just going to lose it again. What's the point?

>>8998006
You're a fucking fool. If God exists, he's not with the Catholic church.

>>8998196
Why do you say that?

I don't know if it's supposed to be, but it can be difficult in a first read, mainly because Woolf's syntax is quite dense.

Just read it slowly and calmly, and pay attention to detail but not so much that you end up losing yourself in the labyrinth that are her sentences.

woah it's not hard for you? Holy shit, you're a genius!

>>8997919
Hah, I can see how you thought that's what I mean, but I actually meant it as in "this is really difficult, is it supposed to be this hard?"

what's interesting about it?

Delusions of grandeur

>>8997889
even if you're typing, I'm going to say that it's already taken you like 10 minutes to attempt to think up something interesting about your life so....no, it's not worth writing about.

>>8997838
I have this. why should I read it you stupid faggot?

Irrespective of what he says, OP is a great faggot.

I didn't care for it, it kind of goes way beyond the realm of believably.

For one, everyone reacts to the main character like he's the best guy on the planet, he's just so great everyone wants to help him. He never does anything really good, or does anything that doesn't help himself out most. That's pretty telling, he's basically just telling this bizarre story of who he sees himself being.

>>8997794
>better
more clearly, I should say.

>>8997794
Virginia Woolf and Dostoyevsky
say Mrs. Dalloway & To the Lighthouse and Crime and Punishment & Bros K

>>8997808
I find bother writers rather daunting. Woolf is difficult to read, and dostoyevsky, while not being that difficult, and being plainly written, takes a tole on me mentally, I find it very intense.

>>8997768
Just read it you fuck, literally everyone else has.

>>8997768
Brave New World is often thrown around with 1984.

It's good. Though, Brave New World resonates more with current reality.

>>8997752
>'vidya'

Please stop. You are a grown man.

>>8997752
Start with an "easy" read. Maybe even a YA book. It could help you start to pay better attention, and soon you'll be able to read harder works.

>>8997775
That's the thing, I'm reading a short, fairly easy book ("Picnic Under Hanging Rock") but I can't tell if I'm just bored of it or if it's my concentration. Also started and dropped Titus Groan. Before my month of abstinence I read Labyrinths, didn't have much of a concentration issue.

>>8997774
Playing it? Yes I am trying to mostly remove it from my life.

One of the best short story collections from the 20th century,

>>8997730
Flan Flan is God-tier

A good man.

>>8997699
Lower IQ; more creative

>>8997699
face it, the white male is simply superior

>>8997710
But south american are more european than the burgers lmao.

we don't read italian you fucking retard

Que sei eu do que serei, eu que não sei o que sou?
Ser o que penso? Mas penso tanta coisa!
E há tantos que pensam ser a mesma coisa que não pode haver tantos!
Gênio? Neste momento
Cem mil cérebros se concebem em sonho gênios como eu,
E a história não marcará, quem sabe?, nem um,
Nem haverá senão estrume de tantas conquistas futuras.
Não, não creio em mim.
Em todos os manicômios há doidos malucos com tantas certezas!
Eu, que não tenho nenhuma certeza, sou mais certo ou menos certo?
Não, nem em mim...
Em quantas mansardas e não-mansardas do mundo
Não estão nesta hora gênios-para-si-mesmos sonhando?
Quantas aspirações altas e nobres e lúcidas -
Sim, verdadeiramente altas e nobres e lúcidas -,
E quem sabe se realizáveis,
Nunca verão a luz do sol real nem acharão ouvidos de gente?
O mundo é para quem nasce para o conquistar
E não para quem sonha que pode conquistá-lo, ainda que tenha razão.
Tenho sonhado mais que o que Napoleão fez.
Tenho apertado ao peito hipotético mais humanidades do que Cristo,
Tenho feito filosofias em segredo que nenhum Kant escreveu.
Mas sou, e talvez serei sempre, o da mansarda,
Ainda que não more nela;
Serei sempre o que não nasceu para isso;
Serei sempre só o que tinha qualidades;
Serei sempre o que esperou que lhe abrissem a porta ao pé de uma parede sem porta,
E cantou a cantiga do Infinito numa capoeira,
E ouviu a voz de Deus num poço tapado.
Crer em mim? Não, nem em nada.
Derrame-me a Natureza sobre a cabeça ardente
O seu sol, a sua chava, o vento que me acha o cabelo,
E o resto que venha se vier, ou tiver que vir, ou não venha.
Escravos cardíacos das estrelas,
Conquistamos todo o mundo antes de nos levantar da cama;
Mas acordamos e ele é opaco,
Levantamo-nos e ele é alheio,
Saímos de casa e ele é a terra inteira,
Mais o sistema solar e a Via Láctea e o Indefinido.

>>8997615
>>8997644
Jesu Christe you retarded faggot I haven't paid any attention to French since I was 12 and I can approximate this with a few trips to Wikitionary.
>Never will there be such as those beauties of images,
>Degenerate products, born of a worthless age,
>Those buskined feet, those castanetted fingers,
>Which know to satisfy a heart like mine.
>I leave Gavarni, poet of chloroses,
>His flock gurgles of the beauties of the hospital,
>For I cannot find among those roses pallid
>A flour which resembles my red ideal.
>What needs the heart deep like the abyss-
>It's you, Lady Macbeth, soul mighty in crime,
>Dream of Æschylus hatched in the southwinds´clime;
>Or indeed thou, great Night, daughter of Michel-Ange,
>Who, twist peacefully in a strange pose
>Thy well-worked charms on the Titans' mouths.

>>8997490
yeah, make it good lol (i hate YA and only women and PoCs are published and hence utter shit, so the white man could potentially write a novel so good by being aesthetically white that it would shock everyone because theyve been lulled into sleep by idiots and brainwashed liberals).

>>8997490
only superficially and only if the book gets popular enough.

Nobody will really give a fuck unless he can use that as a way to show to others personal virtues or moral positions.

>>8997478
>going to the movies when women, liberals, and generally sexually active people frequent such places

degenerate

>he chuckled, faggishly

>>8997501
this desu

Crusades Through Arab Eyes

>>8997428
No Islam apologists please.

As politically neutral as possible, please

>>8997445
I don't know if this is the same book with a different title, but Usama Ibn Munqidh's "The Book of Centemplation: Islam and the Crusades" is really interesting. Don't just read the title off as politically charged, the writer was an actual veteran of the crusades, but has a very strange view of the whole thing.

a phenomenology of color

>>8997407
Bizarre shit

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>>8997407
Newton, 1704
>Darkness is the absence of light.

Goethe, 1810
>Darkness is polar to, and interacts with light.
wow dropped, Guhtuh confirmed retard

probably virginia woolf because of how sleepy they are

maybe goethes epistolary novels like young werther

The Road

>>8997373
Ha, I've been there, suck it nerds