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literature that helps you come to terms with the life you lived ( and regretted )

I am in extreme distress because I grew very old and dont have a wife and family that I always wanted. Need some books to help me cope with the missed opportunities in my life
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>>24968459
You can't cope. You failed completely as human being. You couldn't even fulfill the most basic purpose of your existence which is to reproduce. You are a lifelong waste of resources. Suicide is your only remaining honorable course.
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>>24968465
sad but trvke
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swtg
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>>24968465
Suicide is never honorable.

The moment a man gives up is the monent he deserves to get spat and pissed on.

Quitting is never an option.
It is never over until you're dead, and "too late" doesn't extend to every single opportunity—unless you're a menopausal female who wants biological children
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>>24968498
aren't u that communist who was whining in the wwoym? now u want to lecture others on not being able to compete?
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>>24968459
I know this feeling well, I also just turned 30 a couple days ago
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Why would I regret anything?
I’ve made some poor decisions, and I will likely make some poor decisions in the future. So what?
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>>24968504
No, take your meds dipschiz.
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>>24968521
busted
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>>24968505
Your real life doesn't begin until you're fully an adult. If you still feel like a kid right now despite turning 30 you are a fucking worthless failure who doesn't take responsibility for anything, let alone his own life. Get your shit together yesterday. What are you doing?
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>>24968504
Bodied that freak.
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>>24968529
You're right, I was wrong, you should actually fucking kill yourself immediately.

Go ahead and show me how wrong I was, pretty please. It'll be your Christmas present to me.
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>>24968459
Anything by Dostoevsky
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>>24968459
Also Siddhartha by Hesse
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>>24968459
>I grew very old and dont have a wife and family
>a wife that has taken countless cock, including black cock, for free with zero commitment until you came along
>a family that hates your guts because you have to do shit no other fathers in the past did (diaper changes, child rearing in general) and struggle because every time you try the kids cry for their whore mother instead

trust me bro, you're better off alone
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>>24968570
>>a family that hates your guts because you have to do shit no other fathers in the past did (diaper changes, child rearing in general) and struggle because every time you try the kids cry for their whore mother instead
are you speaking from experience
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>>24968459
Reverend Insanity.
>Chapter 1: The heart of a demon never has regret even in death
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I can relate OP (29 years here). Luckily I was briefly married when I was young and it was terrible, plus I got to see all my exes get married, balloon up, and cuckold their dead-eye'd balding beta male husbands so it's not like I exactly missed anything (other than a bullet), objectively speaking.

Sometimes I wounder if I could just adopt a Palestinian kid or something. Or find a woman who would be a surrogate mom. Always wanted to be a single father.
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>>24968459
The thing is you thought you would just be given a wife and kids but you never cared to put the work in. You deserve your fate and find peace in accepting that
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>>24968508
The thing about emotions is that they are often correlated with but also completely distinct from material conditions. If OP actually had a wife and family or whatever, chances are he would still be a faggot.
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>>24968459
A Fortunate Man(Lykke Per) by Henrik Pontoppidan is an incredible novel of Progress, Failure, and Self Mastery.
'Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship' by Goethe
'The Red and the Black' by Stendhal
W. Somerset Maugham's Books have been refreshing and deal with just this topic, 'Of Human Bondage', 'The Moon and Sixpence', and 'The Razor's Edge' especially.
'Steppenwolf' by Hesse

This board is worthless. So many Novels are about the Failures of Young Men, their Passions overcoming them and their inability to master themselves that it seems inevitable that one or two would have been recommended...
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>>24968654
Looked them up. Thanks. These look like something up my alley. Will read over the holidays
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>>24968528
projecting much?
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>>24968459
The Doctrine of Awakening
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>>24968618
>29
>very old
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>>24968465
Most men didn’t reproduce, being weird about it is retarded
>>24968459
Realize that if you’d had kids you’d regret that too. Whatever you do you will regret. That’s life.
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>>24968837
>Realize that if you’d had kids you’d regret that too. Whatever you do you will regret. That’s life
might be true. however i see few people who are quite happy with everything they do. i cannot even bring myself to buy new clothes for myself since it seems pointless
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>>24968459
>first we must start with a *schniff* uh I mean an observation that you have taken thees moment of introshpection to *sniff* wallow in regret.
>There is a *schniff* deep seated obligashun buried in you somewhere with regards to a shame you feel and this manifeshted as a fear and perhaps *sniff* loashthing which is the result of your current copium shortage.
>use this *schniff* to understand your previous missed opportunities as learning experienshes to help yourshelf live a more fuller life and dismantle the systemic *schniff* oppreshun of the Big O you are currently crippled by. You must *schniff* confront this ashpect of Big O in order to return to agency and move on with a renewed purpose in life or you musht *schniff* realize that life itself has a certain excess to it and this is always something you can shtake life itself upon in order to *schniff* begin at the beginning again so to shpeak.
>otherwise you are doomed to contemplate the aesthetics of suicide which is a *schniff* equal waste of your time. Merry Chrishtmas *schniff*
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>>24968863
Thank you santa zizek merry christmas
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>>24968459
nigga, just get a job, live in a car, work out and save/invest your money. It's that simple
I say this unironically
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>>24968465
Well, rape always is an option
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>>24968459
Awake: It’s Your Turn
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>>24968459
How old? 80? You’re talking as if you’re 80
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>>24968618
>Always wanted to be a single father.
Yea I’m sure your kid would love that too. There’s a good reason God has not allowed you to procreate. Also, you retards thinking that a wife and son would fix your pathetic lives are beyond saving.
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>>24968465
>purpose
>existence

KEK
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>>24968465
>You couldn't even fulfill the most basic purpose of your existence which is to reproduce.
Lol. Lmao, even.

Newton and Kant are failures, guys; pack it up.



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