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Nietzsche resigned from his student corps, burned his walking sticks, forswore smoking and roistering, and bade farewell to Strauss and Offenbach forever. His carefree days were over. Ever after, he harbored a lifelong aversion to smoking, beer-drinking, and all biergemütlichkeit.
He said that beer-drinkers could never understand him because they lack the perception to even solve the basic problems!

"Trauma can also leave a feeling of being defective or flawed. Sometimes victims are ashamed of their reactions to trauma—they are no longer like other people. Shame represents a fundamental break in trust. People who become shame- based have core beliefs that they are unlovable, that if people knew what they were really like they would leave."

He does only what is his to do, trusting all is for the best. We carry our fate with us—and it carries us. All rational things are related, and to care for all human beings is part of being human. Not that we must share their opinions. Listen only to those whose lives conform to nature. The others? He bears in mind what sort they are, and cares nothing for their praise—men who can't meet their own standards.

Nietzsche did not belong to the majority. To him
ideas were ever things to be sought out eagerly, to be weighed calmly, to be tried in the fire. For weal or for woe, the cornerstones of his faith were brought forth, with sweat and pain, from the quarry of his own mind....

"Independence and unvarying reliability, and to pay attention to nothing, no matter how fleetingly, except the Jogos. And to be the same in all circumstances
intense pain, the loss of a child, chronic
llness. And to see clearly, from his example, that a man can show both strength and flexibility"

It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future—sub specie aeternitatis. And this is his salvation in the most difficult moments of his existence, although he sometimes has to force his mind to the task.
Those who know how close the link is between a man's state of mind—his courage and hope, or lack of them—and his body's immunity will understand that sudden loss of hope can be deadly.

Alright.. it's very scary!!!

Those who endured the camps remember the men who moved the barracks offering comfort to others, handing over their last bread without hesitation. They may have been few, but their example was enough to tell an enduring truth: everything can be stripped from a human being except one thing—the final remnant of freedom—the power to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to decide one’s own way forward.

It's been 2 years of my reading journey, and I've read 100+ books and my TBR is slightly in thousands, my laptop itself is filled with different titles and interestingly, I don't own any physical copies and yet, I can have a fair discussion with people about anything.

I still remember the day when I found a self help book, It was very difficult to read and that time, I was very confused about reading at all.

George says, looking uncomfortable. “Rumors and gossip going around schools that such-and- such a boy has done to a girl—then it turns out they did have sex, but she just changed her mind, after, or wanted to get back at him. It gets nasty.
Boys’ lives get ruined by it. A lot of boys are too scared to even talk to girls now—you don’t know how it’s going to be portrayed later"

("Things are going downhill with you!" he said to himself, and laughed about it, and as he was saying it, he happened to glance at the river, and he also saw the river going downhill, always moving on downhill, and singing and being happy through it all. He liked this well, kindly he smiled at the river. Was this not the river in which he had intended to drown himself, in past times, a hundred years ago....)

Red Pill..
"Poor Nice Guy. Women his age avoid him like the plague, yet use him as an emotional dumpster—pouring out every tear and frustration over the jerks they keep chasing. He listens with baited hope, hears 'Why can't guys be like you?' Then she runs straight back to abuse. Cycle repeats. He's left wondering if kindness is just a curse in disguise, and if being decent is the very thing that makes him invisible"

Any sad breakup novels? Feel free to drop some names! Should be medium size (200-300 pages)...

"When women are supposed to exist only in relationships, there is no single force more threatening than the single woman who delays marriage, is financially independent, lives on her own and has high earning power.

Women absorb the anti-women culture so deeply that they blame
themselves for everything, even miscarriages. In this there is
generational continuity......"

Interesting book, must read for every person from India, irrespective of any gender.

"For me love was just meant to happen once and it was forever.
How do I fill the same heart with love for someone else? Not that I never thought that
way, but whenever I thought of it, I couldn’t give myself an honest answer. And in the
absence of any legitimate answer, I would tell myself to simply leave it all up to destiny"

"The point is that romanticism has no value in creating a lasting marriage. George Bernard Shaw says that marriage is like tying to people in a ship together. It doesn't matter who you are tied up to, you will make the person a lifelong partner. Comradeship makes marriages last, not romanticism.
War veterans despise the war they are stuck in. But if asked to leave the battlefield, they will not because of comrades."

The divine interventions in Book 2—Zeus's dream, Iris's message—emphasize the gods' active role in the war. The gods are not passive observers but are actively shaping the course of events. The plan of Zeus, mentioned in the opening lines of the epic, continues to unfold.

The 2nd book establishes the scale of the conflict and the importance of the war for the Greek and Trojan peoples....

I wanted to hate this but somehow I'm kinda enjoying to see the opinions of "PUA", this has some solid advice, and it's definitely not directed towards toxic masculinity or red pill ideology

The divine walls of Troy held firm, and the Trojans kept the enemy out of their city for ten years. Many of the greatest Greek warriors were killed, including Achilles, shot by Paris with an arrow through his heel (which was, according to legend, the only area where he could be hurt). Odysseus and Diomedes crept into the city and stole the statue of Athena from the citadel...

I'm currently in a short hiatus in book reading because there are so many things going on in my real life.
Apparently, I have one call everyday in the morning to read the newspaper's editorial ands then I just start solving my exam related materials (which also has very significant reading comprehension).

I've also completed a lot of books this year, maybe 40s or something in 6 months, and I feel that I need break

Would anyone like to buddy read with me? The book is Brothers Karamzov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, it's a long one but I'm very much interested in it right now because of the premise itself (like there are two characters, one is sorta rationalist, and the other is religious.. now it's not a spoiler) If interested, then please comment!! Thanks for reading <3!!

It's time to read something long and interesting.
"The physical death of his mother in 1679 may have had fewer psychic consequences than the original lapse in the mystical union of mother and
child. Her death may even have been in some form a release for Newton, for it was in the early 1680's that, with Halley's aid, the Principia was put into final shape during a period of prodigious creativity."