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Can happiness be profound?
All the 2deep4you literature is depressing for some reason
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What a dumb, pointless thread.
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>>25495598
>2deep4you
Are you stuck in middle school? Haven’t heard anyone say this since 15 years of age.
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>Can happiness be profound?
Yes. /thread
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>>25495611
Congratulations on your 16th birthday son
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>>25495598
profound happiness is called enlightenment or transcendence
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>>25495629
Not really
>>25495598
I don't know. I think the issue might be marketing , that people are attracted to misery. Whatever the inverse of schadenfreude is seems rare, sadly.
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>>25495598
I think that's just the nature of writing an interesting story. Generally, you could say that a story is about problems and the solutions to them, and having problems doesn't make people happier. And besides, a lot of human life is dealing with sad stuff and issues, so if you write about that, you have a better chance of touching on something Real.
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>>25495598
The Divine Comedy is a happy, profound work.
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>>25495598
everyday I think 4chan can't ask a dumber question, and everyday I'm proven wrong.
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>>25495611
This and "im14andthisisdeep" are just lazy anti-intellectual dismissals. "I'm not dumb, it's the work that is pretentious!"

That said, Ulysses is the most life-affirming book I have ever read, and it's arguably the deepest one out there.
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>>25495624
>/threading your own post
Yikes!
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>>25495626
we don’t say ‘congratulations on your birthday’ in english saar
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>>25495598
It can.
However most literature is storytelling in one form or another.
Happiness makes for boring stories unless that happiness is hard won and at the very end.



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