Read Dostoievsky

>read Dostoievsky
>be depressed for a month

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But then you come out stronger after that

do you? i read the idiot in jan and it fucked me for months. still dunno if i've recovered.

I read crime and punishment and brothers karamazov and didn’t feel anything

>read neitzche and the stoics
>will myself to be depressed
>love being depressed
>seek out ways to make myself depressed
>realize depression is making me happy
amor fati anons, amor fati

I imagine since he was very religious you’d have to be too to really get anything out of his work. As an atheist it just seems like bleak nihilism, I guess with the idea of religious suffering it becomes more reflective and melancholic than just completely dark

>read Cioran
>suddenly not depressed

Good. You deserve it.

It’s powerful literature Monsieur, it’s supposed to have that effect, but you’ll bounce back in no time, a strong individual.

Literally the opposite for me you're doing something wrong