I am begging you to read some fiction bro. → Not because it makes you look smart. → Because fiction teaches things that bullet points can’t. → A self-help book tells you to be resilient. → The Count of Monte Cristo makes you live through resilience for 1,000+ pages. → A self-help book tells you to understand people. → Dostoevsky puts you inside minds you’d never otherwise understand. → Information is easy to forget. → Experience isn’t. Read fiction. Your attention span, empathy, vocabulary, and understanding of human nature will improve.

Mangas are literature in art form.

"The true horror of existence is not the fear of death, but the fear of life. It is the fear of waking up each day to face the same struggles, the same disappointments, the same pain. It is the fear that nothing will ever change, that you cannot escape. And in that fear, there is a desperation, a longing for something, anything, to break the monotony, to bring meaning to the endless repetition of days." -- Albert Camus, The fall

Best Russian Literature to start with:

"Isolate as much as you want to become stronger, even if you see that loneliness is an unbearable hell, it is much better than the multiple masks of humans." - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Which story explores redemption better: Crime and Punishment or Vinland Saga? Both explore guilt, suffering, and the struggle to make peace with the person you once were. But which one portrays the journey toward redemption more profoundly?

cr: The Plague by Albert Camus

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. -Charles Dickens English Literature

The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear ? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid ? - Psalms 27:1

waterstones classics