Name 1 writer or philosopher who didn't have a tough life.

>>9392014
Protip: easy

>>9392014
Homer

jackie chan

>>9392014
Pretty much all of them.

>>9392018
Homer wasn't a person.

>>9392025
YOU arent a person

>>9392014
They exist they just weren't good enough to be remembered. Same will happen with all the people today writing genre-fiction flick-tier shit and "philosophy" pseuds.

Kant

Plato.

>>9392014
Edith Wharton

>>9392023
and that was the only real response
most of them were normies trying to get into deep shits

stop liking them /lit/, they aren't woth it

>>9392014
Sam Harris

Nabokov

Camus

>>9392014
David Ricardo.

What's the point of this thread? Seriously, it looks so fucking retarded and random to me

>>9392055
and I've never read a book

>>9392014
Marx.

>>9392151
He lived with severe barnacles on his ass.

>>9392014
diogenes

>implying you can call someone a philosopher posteriori

ahahaha

>>9392014
Aristotle.

David Hume

Me.

>>9392037
Go home Joyce.

>>9392014
how about marcus aurelius, who was a fookin' king

>>9392014
MY DIARY DESU

Tolstoy.

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>academic/aristocratic life is so hard

Kierkegaard / Schopenhauer

both healthy and rich as fuck but a bit too neurotic

>>9392928
kierkegaard: cripple
schopenhauer: manlet

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>>9392944
oh and his whole family died

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Gucci mane.

Williams, Barth

>>9392944
>kierkegaard: cripple
he had a wierd posture, but wasn't he wasn't physically restricted

>oh and his whole family died
his brother outlived him

>schopenhauer: manlet
he was good with the ladys when he was a teenager but then he switched to austism mode

>>9392928
>a bit too neurotic

lmao

>>9392972
>his brother outlived him
dunno, but the majority died and he struggled with the idea that it was some kind of divine punishment for his father's sins.

tao lin

Is this the self-pity thread?

>>9392034
/thread

>>9393011
yes, that's a pretty dark chapter in his life, but he still had a rather stable social enviroment. he could have had normal social life, if he wanted to.

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>>9392043
>sam harris
>philosopher

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>>9392014
Heidi. Just look how fucking smug this bastard was.

>>9392014
>edgar allan poe

Got to fug cousin

>>9392014
Kant literally never left his cozy German town his whole life and was basically given a tenured position immediately after graduating.

>>9393129

He was a manlet though, and almost certainly autistic.

I wouldn't call that an easy life.

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Unironically

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>>9393174

>tfw you will never prey upon teenage students with your girlfriend

>>9393210
>needing some whore when you have nora

>>9392055
welcome to 4chan

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>>9392014

>>9393230

Goethe's life wasn't as easy as people think.

>>9393063
Fuck he really looks like adolf's brother

>>9392025
yes she was

>>9392014
Schopenhauer

>>9392018
being blind seems pretty tough desu

>>9392014

Goethe literally stated multiple times (in fact costantly in his later years) that he, in his opinion, lived the perfect life

>I never believed a thing had to be attained, I always thought I had already attained it. If someone had set a crown on my head, I should have taken it for granted.

>>9392014
Ironically Emil Cioran

>>9393271
The theory goes that the author of the Odyssey was a woman, not that the author of the Iliad was a woman.

>>9394604
he survived a long almost fatal sickness.

>>9394610
chronic insomnia, exile

>>9394638
Give me a break, he got sick for 6 months in the late 18th century (when such a situation was way more normalized than it is now).

It may have been a traumatic experience, but this is not living a tough life.

>>9394654
it happened during formative years and in his memoirs he assigns a high value to it, so it's relevant to op's question i think.

>>9394663
Again, that's a tough short experience, not a tough life. Leopardi's life is a tough life, Goethe just got sick once and then started living the best life available on planet Earth.

>>9394666
in that case almost everybody had a great life because subjectively everybody adapts quickly to all kinds of stress and most geniuses had a remarkably optimistic attitude, were convinced that everything would fall in place for them eventually, if not in their lifetime then in future.

>>9392014
James Merrill

>>9392151
He was poor as shit because he couldn't stand do anything that wasn't what he loved to do, and he lost two kids because of it.

Terrible ones like Kant the Cunt and Sartre the Farter

>>9394604
One can say their life was perfect even if it wasn't according to others.

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>>9395251

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itt

>>9395270
Back to r9gay, frogposter.

>>9392014
Emily Dickinson just spent every day shitposting in her room.

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>>9395284

>>9392014
Chaucer

>>9392014
Herman Melville had it good.

>>9392014
haruki murakami

>>9392819
Never claimed to be a philosopher

>>9394699
Again, give me a break: HE GOT SICK FOR 6 MONTHS.
That's it, that was the struggle of Goethe. Before that he was a beloved prodigy, after that he was the most revered romantic genius in Europe, living what is now considered one of the most interesting, beautiful lives that have ever been.

OP asked for writers who did not live a tough life, I don't think that this is a tough life, or at the very least only 6 months of it have been so. What about the other 82.5 years, which were the best experience any man not born into roiality could possibly imagine?

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Nicolas Gomez Davila

>>9396260
me: qualitativist
you: quantitativist
das all, no need for rustling