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I use goodreads as a dating site and rate books I haven't read so girls will think I'm smart

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Is this actually useful, or is it only used by YA fiction authors?

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Has a book ever truly captured the way the visual beauty of a woman can ensnare a man for his entire life, even when the beauty in question has faded due to time?

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What does /lit/ think about Cormac Mccarthy's border trilogy?

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anyone else here sick of leading the artist's life? Now, i know what many of you are going to say: that there is no such thing as "the artist's life," (singular) and that I should stop being a little bitch, but just bear with me. It seems in my experience that in order to create deep, quality, thoughtful art, one has to introspect a ridiculous amount. The greatest authors have been for the most part, extremely knowledgeable about their own consciousness and human experience, something that comes through introspection. But introspection is often such a painful process, especially if you attempt to do it with such relentless constancy, because it reveals a lot of either terrible, or pathetic or deluded things about yourself, and shows how little you really know, and how insurmountable and unresolved so many of the problems of the world are. It really is like that cliche Kafka quote about chopping at the frozen sea inside you. And all this is not to mention the unending need to observe people and to analyze situations to break it down to be used in your art, making it hard to just fucking live sometimes. But don't think that I'm somehow doing the whole "I'm a tortured artist woe is me, look how romantic my life is" routine, because the point of this post is that it is not romantic. It's just painful and irritating. There's almost like a nausea at the will to truth inside me, and a desire to just shut off the creative and introspective impulse. And it doesn't help that the cultural locus is such that a great deal of people have no appreciation at all for art in the first place, other than a sort of blind and ignorant respect founded only on an appeal to authorities who appreciate art, which, though we ideally would like to write just for the sake of needing to write, does make your pain seem all the more pointless. I see no happy triumphant ending to the creative path that I'm stuck in, no perfect and sublime solution to all the problems of life and to the attempt to create a great work of art, and even doubt the very value of bringing forth this work were it by some miracle to drop into my hands. I think this may be due to the fact that I am stuck in the terrible Salieri-like middle ground of being able to recognize genius but unable to find it myself. Sorry for the blog post, but I hope to God that I am not alone in this.

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Do I need to be familiar with Kabbalah before reading this?

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/55519

She's p good guys

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I've got a question: Is this book against political correctness or is it a servant of it ?

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Now that the dust has settled, is it wrong to have passionate intercourse with your blood related younger imouto?

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I found this edition of mein kampf in my great grandfather's bookshelf. Can anyone tell me if this is rare or common book?

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Please recommend a few of your must read books related to psychoanalysis. Not interested in snarky comments about "muh Freud". Just want to delve into a new field.

How's Man and His Symbols?

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where to start with her work?

I've heard ggod things about her but her output is so varied and prolific that I don't even know where to begin. I'd appreciate some direction,

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https://www.theodysseyonline.com/6-reasons-why-rupi-kaur-is-the-greatest-poet-of-our-time