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50 Of The Most BeautifulSentences In Literature
Buzzfeed asked their community to tell them about their favorite lines from literature. Here
are some of their most beautiful replies.
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2. “In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.”
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—Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
3. “She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the
balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
—J. D. Salinger, “A Girl I Knew”
4. “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart; I am, I am, I am.”
—Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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6. “Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.”
—Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
7. “Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not
living.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
8. “What are men to rocks and mountains?”
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—Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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10. “‘Dear God,’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my
life.’”
—Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
11. “The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
—Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
12. “A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay
down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.”
—Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
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14. “As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he
thought were these: a) Anything can happen to anyone. and b) It is best to be
prepared.”
—Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
15. “If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.”
—W. H. Auden, “The More Loving One”
16. “And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”
—John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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18. “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your
philosophy.”
—William Shakespeare, Hamlet
19. “America, I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing.”
—Allen Ginsburg, “America”
20. “It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a
defeat better than many victories.”
—W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
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22. “At the still point, there the dance is.”
—T. S. Eliot, “Four Quartets”
23. “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a
question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
—Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
24. “In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart.”
—Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank
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26. “The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.”
—Toni Morrison, Beloved
27. “How wild it was, to let it be.”
—Cheryl Strayed, Wild
28. “Do I dare / Disturb the universe?”
—T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
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30. “She was lost in her longing to understand.”
—Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
31. “She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we
assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.”
—Kate Chopin, “The Awakening”
32. “We cross our bridges as we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing
to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and the presumption
that once our eyes watered.”
—Tom Stoppard, Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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34. “The half life of love is forever.”
—Junot Diaz, This Is How You Lose Her
35. “I sing myself and celebrate myself.”
—Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
36. “There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the
light of all lights.”
—Bram Stroker, Dracula
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37. “Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet.”
—L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
38. “I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even
when the room went dark.”
—Raymond Carver, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”
39. “I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
—Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre
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41. “I have spread my dreams under your feet; / Tread softly because you tread on my
dreams”
—W. B. Yeats, “Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven”
42. “It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.”
—Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
43. “For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.”
—Langston Hughes, The Big Sea
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45. “I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany,
but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the
middle of the night.”
—Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
46. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
–F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
47. “Journeys end in lovers meeting.”
—William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
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49. “It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.”
—J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
50. “One must be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power
to change us.”
—Cassandra Clare, The Infernal Devices
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David GalbraithTo begin at the beginning:
It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starlessand bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched,courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to thesloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea.
Like · Reply · 13 · Oct 21, 2015 9:22pm
DJae Amidon-Brent · Marketing Contractor at Cengage Learning"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are themirror." Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Like · Reply · 9 · Oct 24, 2015 9:33am
Maureen Murphy · University of LifeReally Enjoy Reading these fifty classic sentences
Like · Reply · 5 · Oct 19, 2015 11:09am
Soo Asheim · Process Server at Self-EmployedWay cool. Thanks.Like · Reply · Oct 28, 2015 10:28pm
Ole Madsen“She came back with the glass and her fingers cold from holding the cold glasstouched mine and I held them for a moment and then let them go slowly as you letgo of a dream when you wake with the sun in your face and have been in anenchanted valley.”
Raymond Chandler, Farewell My Lovely
Like · Reply · 5 · Oct 27, 2015 1:10pm
Brian Lehman · Uber dude - wordwelder.com at Self-EmployedThere are lots of Chandler that could be here.
Like · Reply · 3 · Oct 30, 2015 2:25pm
Amima SayeedEnglish Literature, may I add! Surely the compilers didnt think other languages didnthave literature with equally or more beautiful sentences.
Like · Reply · 4 · Oct 25, 2015 12:27pm
Anita Mary Becker · Westerville, OhioBuzzfeed asked its community...
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Dan Thane Tweyman · International Travel Consultant at Flight CentreCanadaDid you miss Tolstoy, Nabokov, Frank, and Marquez? (Plus about a halfdozen others for which I'm not sure of the original language)
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Lyn Hugensmith · Georgia Southern UniversityAnita Mary Becker Marquez is #30.Like · Reply · Oct 29, 2015 1:29pm
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