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What is the purpose of literature?
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What is the purpose of literature?
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>>7637969
Wide and diverse categories don't have singular purposes.
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look smarter and get girls
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All art is quite useless.
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>>7638000
So is everything else.
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>>7638030
found the pleb
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>>7638035
>art is useless but my engineering degree isn't xd
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>>7638000
>>7638035
found the pleb
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>>7637969
To have thoughts you would not have had otherwise.
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>>7638045
that wasn't even me but you're retarded, and the definition of a pseud

you could try googling the quote (yes it's a quote you mongrel)
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>>7638052
Oh no, it's a quote by an important faggot, I didn't know it was off limits!
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You faggots are insufferable
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Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.
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>being a utilitarian
such a sad existence, I pity you
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A means of transfer of information.
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kill time.
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>>7638072
This, except for the internet, movies, television, masturbation, sex, liquor, drugs, eating, sleep and videogames.
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>>7637989
>get girls

no
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>>7638290
>no

yes
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>>7637969
Preservation of human thought
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>>7637969
it has no purpose all great writers were into it to get laid and pay the bills
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>>7637969

source material for movies

/tv/ says 'FOR YOU'
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according to me? to kill time
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>>7637969
Literature lets us feel things we might or might not feel otherwise.
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