#lessons from literature

[gildedbearediting]

A Look At: God Sees the Truth, but Waits

God sees the truth, but waits is a Tolstoy short written in third person past tense. The main character is Iván Dmitrich Aksónof. His wife warns him that she thinks something bad is going to happen to him if he goes to a fair that he plans on attending. However, he laughs it off and heads for the fair. Before he even arrives, Iván is incriminated and sentenced for a crime. The murder of a fellow…

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[thebookhoard]

Title: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes & other Lessons from the Crematory

Author: Caitlin Doughty

Pages: 272

"Armed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid curiosity into her life's work. She cared for bodies of every colour, shape, and affliction and became an intrepid explorer in the world of the dead. In this best-selling memoir, brimming with gallows humour and vivid characters, she marvels at the gruesome history of undertaking and relates her unique coming-of-age story with bold curiosity and mordant wit. By turns hilarious, dark, and uplifting, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes reveals how the fear of dying warps our society and "will make you reconsider how our culture treats the dead" (San Francisco Chronicle)."

I partly read this book as research for my own story ideas, but also because those things (that other people might think of as macabre) always have interested me.

It's quite fascinating. Doughty talks about how we see and cope with death as well as our misconceptions and stereotypes.

I can only recommend that you read it - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes will answer questions and make you question your perception of death simultaneously.

Two quotes from the book:

"But ignorance is not bliss, only a deeper kind of terror."

"The meaning of life is that it ends." (quoted after Franz Kafka, as mentioned in the book as well)

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[sunshiinnne]

"I'm learning the language of the World, and everything in the world is beginning to make sense to me...even the flight of the hawks."

The Alchemist, written by Paulo Coelho

(P.s I've read this book like a couple times and I discovered something new every time like there's so much between the lines. This is the one book that i mostly carry with myself around.)

#i can't get enough of this book #like i would recommend it to y'all to read it once #the alchemist #booklr #book quotes #life lessons #academia #literature stuff #bookish #books and reading #from sarah's camera roll #.🌸

[thepersonalwords]

The choice is ours to make whether the stars in the night sky shine upon us as headlights of an approaching paradise or as tail-lights of receding fortunes

Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning Men from Rot to Rock

#quotes #Agona Apell #The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning Men from Rot to Rock #thepersonalwords #literature #life quotes #prose #lit #spilled ink #life-lessons #success #success-quotes #sustainability

[her-scars-dipped-in-poetry]

to the younger version of me - don't go here it's painful.

do not wish to grow up so fast to do this and that. do not wish to go so far in the future yet, cherish every moment while you're in the present.

I wish I can tell you what I learned now to guide you along. but how? we are only surrounded by the people who have different versions of the best for you. I'm sorry you need to learn things the hard way - the lump in your throat, the silent cries, the emotional outbursts, the guilt in your eyes when you become the people you swear you don't want to be like and the feeling of hopelessness while navigating life with no one to lean on.

don't go here - it's painful.

go here someday because we learned a lot, loves so much and we have better perspectives in life.

—Kathleen Joy

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[aconstantstateofbladerunner]

Another unforeseen frustration in my quest to find a romance novel I actually like: a huge chunk of college romances are written by people who have clearly never been to college.

#i can’t take this shit seriously #colleges don’t have clicks #no one cares of you are a virgin #no one cares how you dress #i took every single exam in pajamas #the real weirdos skateboard down the quad with a canoe oar #posers who think they are weird for liking books don’t get invited places #i’ve gotten more pressure to drink at a single one of my mom’s book club meetings #that my entire four years of college #when are you doing class work? #have you ever had to write even an undergraduate essay? #Do you know how long those take? #why are classes just called ‘english’ #and not something like ‘Literature of the Great Depression’ #Why is the professor asking the class if they predicted the two leads falling in love? #and not i don’t know any actual analysis!? #and why doesn’t anyone talk about their classes outside of them? #me and my friends loved discussing our lessons #both those from my department and from other majors #no talking out a project you’re having trouble with? #no struggling with the transition from high school essay writing to college level? #No stories about your favorite professors? #no gaining perspectives from a different major? #clubs? hangouts? soccer on the tennis courts at 3am? #i thought i would like these because i loved college and miss it #but these are all just high school without a bell #plus they’re mostly just bad in other ways too #i think I’m done with this genre #booklr

[thomashewittslover]

“To live means: to cry and shout, to love, to do silly things, to feel sadness and joy, to even experience horrible, frightening things…and to laugh.”

Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared From The World

#genki kawamura #if cats disappeared from the world #books and reading #booklr #bookish #bookworm #bookblr #books #literature #life lessons #life quotes #quotes #life #love #cats #meaning #death #words #lit #longing

[wisdomshouts]

Getting Through the Dark Night

#ancient chinese wisdom #eastern philosophy #inspirational quotes #life lessons from monkey king #monkey king quotes #mythical wisdom #mythological insights #classic chinese literature #journey to the west #modern life advice

[etchedstars]

favorite thing ever is to go on goodreads and search up the names of books i hate to see if Everyone Else has the same opinion on it

#they usually do #this is about a lesson in vengeance which i read on the way back from my writing program and hated with a passion #today on i hate pretentious mcs who have literally every privilege and treat poc/enby ppl to further their own growth #also ik this is dark academia but literally why the fuck do they drink hard alcohol so much #when its not alcohol its black coffee like ok. what the fuck #i love complex characters but they were both pretentious -> traumatized -> manipulative -> hatred just switching up the order #then theres . 'my dormmate wants to be skinny soooo bad she does everything to be skinny well IM skinnier than her and she wants to be me' #'my doormmate is black and has been ostracized from her sorority cult for having a personality :((( well IM white and i was ostracized for #KILLING MY GIRLFRIEND' #like there is a clear difference. plus that character was only ever there to further the mcs understanding of race which . bffr #this couldve been fine if it wasnt for the mc who is The pretentious dark academic white girl trying to pretend shes not like the other #pretentious dark academic white girls #'and then theres me. who like REAL literature and wears tweed blazers' like youre aware this is literally the starter pack for every 13 y.o #person who thinks this will make them Cool right . like you do know that . #wow. anyways #the overdue asteroid strikes again #i am in fact a hater

[letgoofthatego]

love

#hopecore #i love you #lovers #humans #humans being humans #love life #life lessons #beautiful #cute #couple #literature #poetry #reading #wattpad irl #aesthetic #corecore #happiness #smile #safe space #im not crying youre crying #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #spilled words #blog #youtube #this is a girlblog #update #pink #poem #spilled thoughts #happy birthday

[babydarkstar]

really really reallyyyyyy tired of everyone thinking ‘high femme’ means ‘femme who is Extremely Feminine in presentation’ like sure. maybe some high femmes ARE more feminine presenting but that’s absolutely not what it means to be a high femme. it’s a very critical term within the nuances of stone sexuality and you can’t just use it to describe yourself because you’re hyperfeminine or whatever the fuck

#not a literal university website having a ‘gender and sexuality abcs’ page #and getting high femme so fucking incorrect #im actually offended like. idk man. do better. Supposed Academics #idk to me gender and sexuality studies is so hit or miss now #it’s either the most based shit ever to exist or it’s like taking a kindergarten lesson with bozo the clown #and as someone who does have a stone sexuality but only sees talk abt stone butches #i would love to read literature from high femmes. i want their perspective i want to find something to relate to #because ultimately i do relate to stone tops in the sense that im like a lock to their key or whatever #but i would love to see more from the other side of things #it’s hard to articulate honestly and reading poetry is so nourishing for me

[peachpitss]

always wild to see the usual fandom/shipping discourseTM happening in the locked tomb fan base. ………the locked tomb? the series with canon cannibalism and necrophilia?? the one with canon power imbalanced hate-polycules?? the one where someone gave themself a lobotomy? that series????

#abby.txt #tlt #let tlt be nasty and messy. let her be free #also these subjects are not new in literature not by a long shot pls don’t even breathe in the direction of antiquity #these are my fucked up little people from my books and they’re teaching me lessons about love at a great personal cost #not a personal cost to ME tho i’m chillin

[crescentmp3]

im sorry im using this template again. they should make a school where it's just literature history and philosophy lessons on loop

#do you understand my love for these lessons yet. #perhaps geography + religion lessons may be included. #i feel like i've made it clear which lessons im enjoying the most #to be fair my general dislike of the numerical lessons this year is birthed from the new teachers not teaching well! #by new teacher i mean teachers who have been doing their jobs for years who have still not learned to keep the attention of the age-range — #— that they are talking to. #they will either treat us like five year olds who need everything explained or scholars of their level that'll do fine with a basic runover #besides that the physics and biology teachers haven't changed and im used to them and they teach amazingly thank you. they can stay #ahem. not the point. they should make a school where it's literature history and philosophy lessons on loop #🌙rambling

[teapartyatsix]

I feel sick realising that I am the one who ruins friendships and relationships. That I am the one who doesn't give enough,who isn't capable of reciprocating the same amount of love.

It's easy to blame others. But deep down I know it's me. I just don't want to make the other person suffer because of my incapability to love. So I bite my tongue and stop myself from getting close to them.

It hurts....it hurts a lot. But this is better for me and for them..and so I endure

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[alliwanttodoiscollectpoetry]

When I wait   for my father, the stars  

disappear. Only bats   dart and flutter,  

hungry for the hum   of mosquitos, thick  

as honey. Their bright   sting lingers and jumps

like electricity can. It’s looking for a body.

He didn’t say   how production stopped when the volt distribution panel was cleaned of calf and hip. No matter how hot

the summer was, my father said it was nothing compared to coke, spelled coal. The way it penetrated his skin like the breathlessness of asphalt and the charcoal briquettes he set fire to—

the sizzle and curl of chicken skin rubbed with paprika, salt, and black pepper. The acrid spray of vinegar when turned and sealed   under lid. I stood next to the heat,   a sticky sheen of smoke, and I wanted to eat.

A Lesson from my Father about Electricity ~ Monica Rico

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[noxtivagus]

i'm rlly happy i started listening to the 1975

#🌙.rambles #at first i thought they had more sus songs so i didn't listen to them for a while #n the first song i listened to them was fallingforyou n the only song i rlly listened to for a while #n then. i listened to some other popular ones at first which were more on the ballad slow type yeah #which i like too but then. i listened to more n now. oh my god #i really appreciate their views on society ! in abiiof i rlly. understand where they're coming from #that kind of thing is smth that means a lot to me yk? just. a lot of things in society in general n then #while i may not relate personally to the ones more on the topic of love n uhm yeah yk #i do understand them well n probably more than i shld 😭 i don't have experience myself but for me it's just #understanding n learning is just really important to me. so i know of more.. mature things still #i rlly love how. w their beats n the music. n then the meaning behind it. i really appreciate it. i love it so much #n then live they're just !!!! really performers #i really love how they just. do what they want yk? be who they are #n then. particularly since i know more of him w stuff i've watched n read #matty really is intelligent. he looks at life deeper than most. n i relate to a lot that i know of him #also like getting more into music w the bands n all rlly reminded me of how i rlly want to make my own one day #like. a lot of my goals n dreams r like. relating to literature n games n science n music #both in like learning or taking n then creating in a way #specifically in music here yk i really grew up w music. a lot of influences from so many artists n then #i played piano ever since 8 n then i rlly learned well but we stopped having lessons n i got more busy w my studies #since i'm.. an academic achiever as well n my grades have always been great in general n then #i love all genres. i can't even rlly write abt that rn bcs my love for music is rlly just so much #n then i don't know how to explain it but.. when i listen to music i really really Listen to it like. yk i take in everything abt it #i love music so much. oh man #i cld ramble on even more abt the 1975 too i think they're rlly special in the industry #i rlly love how they juxtapose darker topics w their upbeat songs? #i'm gna be productive now phew i'm rlly glad we have a long weekend. i'll make the most of this time.