/lit/ - Literature

>>21783801
This

>What is the quality you most like in a man?
Feminine charm.

>What is the quality you most like in a woman?
A man’s virtues, and frankness in friendship.

What did Proust mean by this?

>>19851877
It's from a book called "Nietzsche as a Scholar of Antiquity".

>>18190040
You got best girl. Now post pics.

Sometimes we find ourselves paying attention… to the most relaxing things. Sometimes we find ourselves adding numbers, which are numbered nicely… And one wonders sometimes, why you two that.

So you can sit there…in that chair here…listening with your subconscious mind, while your conscious mind remains very relaxed and peaceful. You can relax peacefully…while you try to be aware…of the exact meaning of the words you hear…and of all the changes that occur there…in your thoughts, sensations or awareness…as I speak here.

Or you can forget about trying…to make all the unnecessary effort…to pay close attention…to everything that happens. Because you can remember that you can forget so easily… and with forgetting certain things you can remember other things. …Remembering what you need to remember…and forgetting what you can forget… It does not matter if you forget… you need not remember. Your subconscious mind remembers everything that you need to know …and you can let your subconscious mind listen …and remember while… your conscious mind sleeps and forgets… And all you really need to do …is remember that your memory is for getting …things that you thought you had forgotten.

So you can forget about trying…to make the effort…to pay close attention…to everything that happens…or does not happen…in your experience…as you listen to me…and also to your own thoughts, …or to your sensations…that change over time…or stay the same, …in an arm or an ear… (Do they say in one ear, out over there?) …and your legs or fingers.

And what about the thoughts…and the variety of images,…that speak to your mind’s eye…as I speak to your mind…to remind you that what you speak to yourself…speaks for itself…as you try to search and find that things…may seem to be one thing…but turn out to be another.

Because two and two are four, but two can also…mean also…and no two are alike. It all belongs to you

and to your own ability …to relax…those two ears too,…and to begin to know that you really don’t know…what means yes…and what means no, here…though you may try to guess…where you’re going…to go or not to go…you don’t know…that there is no …real way to know…how to let go while holding on…or to recognise…that there is nothing you need to try to know…to do or not to do… because everything you do…allows you to recognise that you already know that…I can say many different things…and there is no need for you to make the effort it takes…to try to make the effort to pay close attention…to each thing I say or don’t say, because there was a time when the effort to train the mind to stay on track…was not worth the trip that led the mind back to that time…or peaceful…calm awarness…of effortless letting go…getting low and knowing that you don’t need to try to hear or even understand.

I really [cursive]really[cursive/] think anyone that has never had sex with a loving s.o. should not touch a single page of literature until he has had have been at it.

Literature will neither help your life nor expand your knowledge of anything until you are happy with yourself.

t. German theoretics and logical-philosophy doctrate.

>That one skinny tween that always looks for new CD's and philosophy books with his dad

INFP
Brothers Karamazov
St. Therese of Lisieux's Story of a Soul

How do I convince a Marxist lesbian (female) to date me, a Neoplatonist reactionary? She's very cute so please be serious and recommend some literature that could help.

Unironically how easy will it be for me as an academic to impress and seduce young female students? I am currently completing my dissertation on mystical theology in early Christianity and Pseudo-Dionysius. I am reasonably attractive, white, and tall; should I adopt the dark academia meme so these girls will find me more brooding and appealing?

Anon, who's your favorite woman author? Woman poet? Woman philosopher? Y-you do read women, don't you?

>>16707467
It's all so tiresome

I once had a Portuguese chum
Whose countenance always looked glum.
I said “Why so distressed?”
And he finally confessed
That his cock was the size of his thumb.

There once was a husband from Spain
Whose wife was in singular pain.
Though with passion she burned
Her body he spurned
For he only had cock on the brain.

There once was a girl from Andorra,
A flirtatious (though married) señora.
She was eager for cocks,
And so opened her box
So often they called her Pandora.

There once was a fellow from France-
To fuck him meant taking a chance.
Though his member was huge
He sometimes wore rouge
And demanded that she be called Nance.

My sister-in-law is Bulgarian
And quite a kind humanitarian.
Though she doesn’t give cash
Or recycle her trash,
She’ll fuck every passing vulgarian.

There once was a hostess from Norway
Who was hospitable about foreplay.
When she got in the mood
So as not to exclude
She let all passersby through her doorway.

>>16688926
>Best American poet
Dickinson
>Best American novelist
Wharton
>Best American short story writer
O'Connor
>Best American essayist
Morrison
>Best American book
My Antonia
Cringe. Literally wrong on every count. Girls do it better.