Are there any books that encourage living and enjoying life rather

>>8337762
on the contrary, what are some book I can read to inspire a sort of constant thought and analyzation of the world?

The Immoralist by Andre Gide is exactly what you're looking for

>>8337762
On The Road

Infinite Jest

>>8337762
Ego and Its Own
No, really.

Tao The Ching
Epistulae morales

>>8337769
Isn't that about buttsecks?

>>8337762
Candide by Voltaire

Are there any books that don't tell me what I want to hear?

>>8337762
Is that image from Tatami Galaxy or am I misattributing it

>>8337901
yup, from the ed

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>>8337895

>>8337773
Gonna put this myself, living that life will kill you from liver failure sadly

>>8337762
Anything by Camus

>>8337765
Why would you want to do this? I've been stuck in constant analysis and studying for most of my life, and it's a terrible way to live. It's only worth it to the extent of understanding basic pragmatics to live a virtuous life and perhaps some poetry. Everything else compartmentalizes and diminishes the essential nature of reality to bland mechanical ideas. There is beauty in ignorance.

>>8337762
You do realise that what you're asking is kind of hypocritical right?

>>8337987
In what way is it hypocritical?

>>8337990
You're basically asking for a book about food because you're feeling hungry.

>>8337987
It's a way to progressively accept that lifestyle. It's not hypocritical for people who want to start with Taoism to read taoist texts, even if the first line of the Tao Te Ching goes against it.

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The Alchemist is the best in this genre, it's exactly what you're looking for

>>8337762
Why do you make the distinction between living life and thinking? One must be alive and living to lose oneself in thought.

>>8338127
This is shit
Get the complete poems of Alberto Caeiro instead (he's an heteronym of Fernando Pessoa so it's not too big of a read)

>>8338142
You know what I mean.

>>8337762
Hamlet

>>8338143
>implying OP can read Portugese

>>8338423
>translations

Steppenwolf by hesse

>>8337901
>>8337902
best ed desu

>>8337762
The ouevre of Yukio Mishima from Japan.

Dostoevsky

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - James Thurber

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>>8338636
My nigga

Siddharta by Hesse

Lucretius - On the Nature of Things

Trust me OP

>>8338467 #
>reading poetry in translation
How can a person be this pleb

>>8337762
ZARATHRUSTER

Zorba the Greek and Dorian gray - both hedonistic novels

>>8337762
>ITT No Nietzsche

This proves you fucks haven't actually read Nietzsche whatsoever. Not even the Thus Meme'd Zarathustra

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>>8341892
>>8341740
Get your shit together faggot. In zarathustra we trust.

Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei :^)

>>8337762
Nietzsche