What's a book that can make you really appreciate the fact that anything exists at all?

Just something that makes you feel wonder, like the first time you ever watched Carl Sagan's Cosmos. A book that has to do with the very nature of existence and it's ends. Something that makes you feel tiny and insignificant

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The writings of St. John of the Cross and the Gospel According to St. John

>... like... Carl Sagan's Cosmos...

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this, so much this

Weird answer but the end of books (and of fiction in general). That feeling where you wonder what happened after the story ended, and what else there is in that world. For a more specific answer, good metaphysics literature makes me appreciate the fact things exist quite some bit. Emerson, young Marx, and Heidegger also have some things to say about the appreciative attitude toward existence that you talk about. In my opinion you ought to have this attitude by default in your day-to-day life. Also, the phenomenon you describe at the very end of your post is the aesthetic category of the sublime, and it's the best aesthetic category.

lmao

Spinoza's Ethics

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>Anti-intellectual backed by Koch Brothers to convince the poors there's honor in serfdom

Hard pass

>not enjoying making others rich and supporting a society that couldn't care less if you died
Commie or leech