Which novelist had the best answer on how to live life?

Philosophically Goethe best fits me, but practically his life was pretty effin awesome too

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>reading for plot

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Kierkegaard & Dostoevsky

Nietzsche.

Unfortunately now used by faggot teenagers to justify their nihilistic hedonistic tendencies.

Bradley Nowell

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>Goethe
>be high ranking statesman, poet, playwright
>hang with Schiller and Napoleon
>fuck bitches left and right
My nigga

Robert E Howard

Joyce and Proust t b h

Lermontov

david foster wallace

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'hauer

What was Proust's answer?

this guy, of course

Nietzsche is useful insofar as he highlights points that other thinkers either missed or were too cowardly to say, but he ultimately takes the whole 'pain and struggle' thing too far, especially the idea of 'the individual struggling against the herd.'

Voltaire? Probably just tacked on though, desu

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honetly joyce

Dante.

search for the lost time

Not a big fan of Hemingway but the guy knew how to party and enjoy life.

Guy didn't kill himself because he was a faggot and depressed.
He killed himself because he was bored with life, done and seen it all and wanted to go out on his terms.
If that isn't fucking badass I don't know what is.

Tolstoy.

The Unlimited Blade Works route of the Fate/Stay Night visual novel. (Not the anime)

It'll take you 35 hours to get to the answer. And the quality of the translation sucks balls. But it is still the best thought out conclusion I've seen.

which is?

dawg he killed himself because he couldn't cope with the fact that his hypertension prevented him from writing at the level he was previously writing. iirc.

>Hold up, what about me