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>>8651216
Realize that your problems started in childhood, probably your parents demanded great or impossible tasks from you and you occasionally (or often) failed and then they would punish you. As an adult you keep re-enacting this cycle of exceedingly high standards and the eventual failure, and of course the self attack that comes with the failure. Thats just my guess though.

Wanting and expecting greatness is a... great... thing but not if it comes from a dysfunctional forces place like your current situation, I'd suggest talk therapy to solve your problem.

Inb4 meme reply

Are you me?

I've come to embrace it, to work as much as I can and to strive for greatness. I find more meaning in this work more than anything else.

Ask yourself whether you really want to work less or not. The guilt can be a nice tool to push yourself a bit. If you know your limits, you can reduce the guilt by remembering yourself that pushing yourself beyond your limits is counterproductive.

>>8651385
This anon is right. Get therapy. In a book called Reinventing Your Life by Jeffrey E. Young they have a chapter that seems to be about what you are describing OP.

17. UNRELENTING STANDARDS / HYPERCRITICALNESS (US)

The underlying belief that one must strive to meet very high internalized standards of behavior and performance, usually to avoid criticism. Typically results in feelings of pressure or difficulty slowing down; and in hypercriticalness toward oneself and others. Must involve significant impairment in: pleasure, relaxation, health, self-esteem, sense of accomplishment, or satisfying relationships.
Unrelenting standards typically present as: (a) perfectionism, inordinate attention to detail, or an underestimate of how good one's own performance is relative to the norm; (b) rigid rules and “shoulds” in many areas of life, including unrealistically high moral, ethical, cultural, or religious precepts; or (c) preoccupation with time and efficiency, so that more can be accomplished.

Good luck

I'll start. A poem about the faults of hedonism, because I was bored out of my mind at a concert.

>>8651165
yikes! were your friends fucked up?

>>8651179
Classical concert, that my cousin was performing in, so no. I wish I was though.

Woolf was the better writer anyway

Jane Austen's characters are very well-developed and have the moral complexity of real people, so normies relate to them. This makes her a great writer, but it also makes her pleb bait.

Patrician writers recognize her for her innovations in the fields of writing, like the development of colored narration and free indirect discourse.

She isn't satirizing the main characters; it's everyone around them who are silly.

>>>/wsr/
>>>/his/
>>>/google.com/

>>8651073
His pruned it when I posted there.

I have googled it, but surprisingly enough, 4chan is a good base to find the middleground between ideological bias.

Not really.

hesiod

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Actaeon because furry snuff fetish.

The section on Narcissus was most powerful, I thought

Actual science is infinitely more interesting than science fiction.

>>8650976
good one

Read the sticky or go to /wsr/.

Better yet, kill yourself.

>>8650930
Bertrand Russell is miles better than that hack

>inb4 dozens of neckbeard pics

>>8650901
yonder

>meme

>>8650922
...
>With a mooted wing and waefu' maen,
>The eagle sought her eiry again;
>But lang may she cower in her bloody nest,
>And lang, lang sleek her wounded breast,
>Before she sey another flight,
>To play wi' the norland lion's might.
...

i especially like that waifu mien, i mean woeful

>>8650893
checking the archive!!!!!!

The Interpretation of Dreams.

>>8650893
avoid pseudoscience

GIVE me women, wine, and snuff
Untill I cry out "hold, enough!"
You may do so sans objection
Till the day of resurrection:
For, bless my beard, they aye shall be
My beloved Trinity.

Passions of snow are flying;
A Cardinal bleeds against the evening on a worn bough.
Rosy cheeks fog the back window, a three-by-three pane
Overlooking grandmother's squash garden, quiet now in
The midst of our final months. Above it, the clock cuckoos,
gentle as the passions around.
Grandfather's squash garden is quiet now, too,
until next year.

>>8650884
Roses are blue
Violets are blue
Hydrangeas are blue
Forget-me-nots are blue

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Masters Making The Grass Green ?

youtu.be/8zdbiidpPF0

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Temed Memes Awakened Dreams

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A Circuit That Connected Things ?

It's shit, like all books by women.

>>8650797
not as good as steinbeck. read him instead.

>>8650995
>steinbeck
Steinbeck is trash.

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Italian to Somali dictionary

>>8650713
Kill yourself

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>>8650723
Not nice!

Yes.

>>8650687
>gass

is the tunnel the most /lit/ book of all time?

It's a deplorable POS human being lamenting about his small dick for 650 pages.

(it's also really good)

>>>/wsr/
>>>/r/books

>>8650656
Start with the greeks. Not even memeing.
If you want to be more mentally engaged while reading, give philosophy a try.
If you don't at least somewhat enjoy it, then /lit/ honestly isn't for you.

The Dickens/Tartt thing was a nice touch but you went a bit overboard. Good bait posts seem kind of reasonable except for one glaring flagrancy; yours has too many