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How is this so good.

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What are some books that depict falling in love?

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>see suicidal friend reading Schopenhauer

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What are the most /lit/ languages to learn for those who are tired of filth that is english?

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How do I into bukowski?

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I enjoy writing. I write the kind of ideas and stories that I'd like to read but do not exist, so, in a way, it's for myself. But at the same time, I get weirded out when I realize that none of this is going to be read by anyone else. And that's when I lose my motivation.

This might apply to most aspiring artists, in the 2010s: everyone has a voice, and there's just too much supply for too little demand. I've read a lot of the classics, but none of the contemporary stuff, so I fall into the same cliché. Rest assured I will try to correct it now that I'm aware.

But if I have this problem, what's left for people that aren't that much into literature? There's just too much entretainment options other than reading. Some arguably worse, just as, for example, skimming over news sites and social media. And some are more captivating, like youtube, series and videogames, that do not require one's full attention and dedication. I don't think they can attain the profundity of insight into the mind of the author the book does, but they are not worse mediums, just different, and they provide different value.

Having this in mind, writing (for most of us, at least) will be a masturbatory endeavour.

My question for you guys is, does it have value in itself? As I said, I do enjoy it, but I enjoy other things too, so writing for no one is purposeless? If not, how can one grow past the need for an audience?

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ITT: Books that made you hate women

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>transcended the need for sex
>transcended the need for inter-personal relationships
>transcended the need for social validation
>transcended the need to consume tasty foods and beverages
>transcended the need to attain further knowledge

What happens now? Do I die? I never anticipated that I would ever become this intelligent.

Any good books on this etc?

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itt: words that we hate
I'll start
>awesome

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I need to refresh my German. I learned it for 10 years in school but I haven't practiced it for 6 years at all.

I was planning to get a German book and take its translation to read side by side.

What should I read? I was thinking

The Sorrows of Young Werther
Faust
Maybe some Nietzsche (already read Human, All Too Human)
Some Freud or Jung

Any idea, tips, advice?

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Will this be the next meme doorstopper, the new Bottom's Dream? Or will it be good like early Auster?

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>wrong about all of his natural science
>overly reliant on his senses
>rejected Plato's most profound and correct idea (Forms)
>sexist and pro-slavery
>no writing skill whatsoever

Give me one good reason to read Aristotle if I'm not interested in Politics.

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Every act of communication is an act of tremendous courage in which we give ourselves over to two parallel possibilities: the possibility of planting into another mind a seed sprouted in ours and watching it blossom into a breathtaking flower of mutual understanding; and the possibility of being wholly misunderstood, reduced to a withering weed. Candor and clarity go a long way in fertilizing the soil, but in the end there is always a degree of unpredictability in the climate of communication — even the warmest intention can be met with frost. Yet something impels us to hold these possibilities in both hands and go on surrendering to the beauty and terror of conversation, that ancient and abiding human gift. And the most magical thing, the most sacred thing, is that whichever the outcome, we end up having transformed one another in this vulnerable-making process of speaking and listening.

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i need books about chance, about the idea of chance, about the mystery of what we call chance, about its role in the order of things.

shit keeps happening to me and i don't know what to think anymore (don't ask)

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Time travel is a cool sci-fi concept.

I've been writing a story, recently, about Time,

In my story there is a concept I called "Time Continuum".

In the time continuum, you can go forward, or backward in time!

If you go back in time, you change the future; and when going forward in time, you leave parts of the past unchanged (you're missing) - strange, I know.

The perfect characters for my story (you can't have an empty Time Continuum), were four concepts of time; time 1, time 2, time 3 and time 4.

The main character, Tock, strangely a protagonist and an antagonist, is in the Time Continuum.

Time 4, was the first person that Tock met before he entered the Time Continuum, and Time 4 is also every other character met in the Time Continuum.

Tock experiences Time 1, Time 2 and Time 3, prior, but he hasn't acknowledged each of them, logically, by the time he reaches the Time Continuum.

Tock has misunderstood: the butterfly effect, nature is strange, etc. He makes many mistakes, and the Time Continuum is a mess, but he has a chance to change it from a harsher position.

He comes back in the future, more aware of the circumstance, and manages to escape the Time Continuum; but this information is for the readers of my story (under construction).