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Who are your favourite aphorists, /lit/?

>> No.7558503

The poster known only as "Anonymous"

>> No.7558513

Giacomo Leopardi

If you haven't read Zibaldone you are literally a pleb.

>> No.7558582

>>7558513
Worth it in translation?

>> No.7558587

>>7558582
*shoves you against a locker*

The FUCK did you say!?

>> No.7558593

>>7558513
>4,5k pages of aphorisms
What the fuck. "Maxims" are like a hundred pages and "The Trouble With Being Born" is 200-something.

>> No.7558598

>>7558593
If you want to be big you have to read big.

>> No.7558604

>>7558582
>Non parla tutte le lingue del mondo

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

>> No.7558623

>>7558598
Reading hundreds of cracker mottos isn't being big.

>> No.7558630

>>7558623
for you

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>>7558582
>lire des traductions

>> No.7558655

>>7558640
Kek

>> No.7558723

Nietzsche.

>> No.7558784

>>7558604
>italians pretending to be relevant after the renaissance

>> No.7559282

>>7558784
you probably misunderstood what he said m8

>> No.7559303

>>7558784
please go back to /int/

>> No.7559310

>you will never cuddle up to cioran while he moans about life

Why even live?

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>>7559310
was he the most /fa/ philosopher?

>> No.7559458

>>7559310
he wouldnt meet you unless you invited him to an expensive restaurant.

>/lit/ buys into le depressed anchorite facade
kek

>> No.7559483

Can parables be considered aphorisms?

I like Kafka.

http://zork.net/~patty/pattyland/kafka/parables/parables.htm

>> No.7559486

>>7559432

Is that Jack Nance in Eraserhead? Because it looks a lot like him. Weird.

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>>7559486
Maybe a tribute?

>> No.7559580

La Rochefoucauld.

>> No.7559626

>>7559458
I actually admire him for that. He said he only went to literary parties for the scotch.

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7559659

Jean Baudrillard, pic related, one of his longer routines from "Cool Memories"

Here is another of my favorites from "The Transparency of Evil":

“Consider Michael Jackson, for example. Michael Jackson is a solitary mutant, a precursor of a hybridization that is perfect because it is universal — the race to end all races. Today’s young people have no problem with a miscegenated society: they already inhabit such a universe, and Michael Jackson foreshadows what they see as an ideal future. Add to this the fact that Michael has had his face lifted, his hair straightened, his skin lightened — in short, he has been reconstructed with the greatest attention to detail. This is what makes him such an innocent and pure child — the artificial hermaphrodite of the fable, better able even than Christ to reign over the world and reconcile its contradictions; better than a child-god because he is a child-prosthesis, an embryo of all those dreamt-of mutations that will deliver us from race and from sex.”

Also, William Burroughs isn't really an aphorist, but I like him for a similar reason as Baudrillard. He breaks the narrative to just muse on some strange topic. A lot of "Did I ever tell you about..."

>> No.7559685

Schopenhauer

>> No.7560764

Nicolas Gomez Davila

https://mobile.twitter.com/DColacho