"50 Of The Most Beautiful Sentences In Literature"

[Anonymous No.7342399]

Well, /lit/?
http://pulptastic.com/50-beautiful-sentences-literature/
spoiler: plebshit

[Anonymous No.7342405]

J'unis un coeur de neige à la blancheur des cygnes
Je hais le mouvement qui deplace les lignes

There's two of them, fuck that list.

[Anonymous No.7343065]

"I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too"
Pablo Neruda was savage

[Anonymous No.7343067]

"And in that moment I swear we where infinite"

[Anonymous No.7343112]

[Anonymous No.7343969]

"Come what might she would be wild, untrammeled, free."

[Anonymous No.7344045]

'...and then she walked away from him easily' - Gaddis in Recognitions.

[Anonymous No.7344048]

>>7343067
Actually its "And In That Moment I Swear We Were Infinite Jest"

[Anonymous No.7344054]

Mais où sont les neiges d'antan ?

[Anonymous No.7344104]

"They're in love. Fuck the war." - Gravity's Rainbow.

[Anonymous No.7344708]

on his wise shoulders through the checkerwork of the trees the sun flung spangles, dancing coins

[Anonymous No.7344743]

>>7344104
do people unironically think this is good

[Anonymous No.7344752]

>>7342399
Wow, that list is pitiful.

[Anonymous No.7344759]

>>7342399
>Isn't it pretty to think so?
This sentence, without context it is nothing.

[Anonymous No.7344769]

'Meu coração é maior que o mundo.'

[Anonymous No.7344772]

"There, balanced upon pedestals, thrusting their own weight against the weight of time never yielded to nor beaten off but absorbed in chipped vacancies, the weathering, the negligent unbending of white stone, waited figures of the unlaid past." - The Recognitions

[Anonymous No.7344775]

>>7344743

People don't do anything unironically any more. At all. Reality is lost.

[Anonymous No.7345328]

>>7344775
We're living in a Stage Four simulation right now, man!

[Anonymous No.7345358]

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."

[Anonymous No.7345376]

>>7345358
what the fuck is "discovering ice" even supposed to mean

[Anonymous No.7345408]

"Die Aufnahmefähigkeit der großen Masse ist nur sehr beschränkt, das Verständnis klein, dafür jedoch die Vergesslichkeit groß. Aus diesen Tatsachen heraus hat sich jede wirkungsvolle Propaganda auf nur sehr wenige Punkte zu beschränken und diese schlagwortartig so lange zu verwenden, bis auch bestimmt der Letzte unter einem solchen Worte das Gewollte sich vorzustellen vermag. Sowie man diesen Grundsatz opfert und vielseitig werden will, wird man die Wirkung zum Zerflattern bringen, da die Menge den gebotenen Stoff weder zu verdauen noch zu behalten vermag." - „Mein Kampf“ 1943, 851.-855. Aufl., S. 198

[Anonymous No.7346962]

>>7345376
It was a hard translation to make, in Spanish "conocer el hielo" would mean it would be the first time he saw ice

[Anonymous No.7347782]

>>7342399
"We need enemies much more than enemies need us" - Metro 2035

[Anonymous No.7347790]

>>7345376
why are you here?

[Anonymous No.7347829]

When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets

Original sentences, please do not steal.

[Anonymous No.7347835]

>>7342399
Pretty fucking patrician list desu desu

Pretty typical that buzzfeed is only going to pick feel-good lines about love, happiness and meaning rather than linguistically/syntactically beautiful sentences.

A lot of these sentences have very little meaning when taken out of context and could very well just be apart of the white-girl pumpkin-spice latte motivational poster meme.

I think that the beauty of a sentence can only really be established either syntactically or from the truth of it.

Personal favorite:
> The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
Farewell to Arms.

I was amazed there was no Lolita, but I guess they don't associate beauty with diddling kids.

[Anonymous No.7348147]

>>7342399
Not a single Joyce.

[Anonymous No.7348194]

>>7348147
there's one from portrait in one of the picture/word graphics, the list is confusing AND shitty

[Anonymous No.7348197]

>>7347835
>>7348194
same with lolita, in a picture graphic

[Anonymous No.7348220]

>>7344769
It's "não é maior que o mundo", parente

[Anonymous No.7348223]

>>7342405
Et jamais je ne pleure et jamais je ne ris.


Mah nigga. Always loved that poem.

Another couple of lines from the same mad man:

Sois sage, o ma douleur, et tiens-toi plus tranquille

Entends, ma soeur, entends la douce nuit qui marche

(hear, sister, hear the sweet night walking, works well in English too)

And of course:

Mais elle était du monde où les plus belles choses
Ont le pire destin
Et, rose, elle a vécu ce que vivent les roses
L'espace d'un matin

FUn thing, I still remember how the Lamartine sentence: "Un seul ^etre vous manque et tout est dépeuplé" used to be a popular meme on facebook.

[Anonymous No.7348233]

Mostly banal shit expressed in commonplaces. “The curves of your lips rewrite history.”, I mean seriously? What does that even mean?

To what green altar, O mysterious priest,
Leadst thou that heifer lowing at the skies,
And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?

THAT is a beautiful sentence, far more than the awkward coda from the same poem.

[Anonymous No.7348241]

One in english, I legit dropped the book and just sat thinking

“Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.”

My fav is in portuguese though, and far beyond my translatin capabilities

[Anonymous No.7348251]

>>7344772
Let's end it all together.

[Anonymous No.7348262]

"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."

[Anonymous No.7348292]

You get born and you try this and you don't know why only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people, all mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don't know why either except that the strings are all in one another's way like five or six people all trying to make a rug on the same loom only each one wants to weave his own pattern into the rug; and it can't matter, you know that, or the Ones that set up the loom would have arranged things a little better, and yet it must matter because you keep on trying or having to keep on trying and then all of a sudden it's all over.

[Anonymous No.7348821]

>He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
Damnit Leo, I was having a nice day.

[Anonymous No.7348840]

>>7348821
>translations

[Anonymous No.7348849]

Why say no to masks when you have no face?

[Anonymous No.7348863]

>>7348251
In life--apart. In death--together, forever. I love you, anon.

[Anonymous No.7348917]

>>7348821
>He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

This just sounds really awkward to me. I never get why people seem to like this sentence so much.

[Anonymous No.7348920]

>>7343112
That first page is fucking grand

[Anonymous No.7348922]

>>7348917
It's the sentiment. The power of the metaphor. I find it quite beguiling.

[Anonymous No.7348945]

>>7348917
It's the feeling of love for another being completely pervasive in your life, of it being in everything you see, of being the only reason why seeing anything is possible.

[Anonymous No.7348952]

At the top

If one were only an Indian, instantly alert, and on a racing horse, leaning against the wind, kept on quivering jerkily over the quivering ground, until one shed one’s spurs, for there needed no spurs, threw away the reins, for there needed no reins, and hardly saw that the land before one was smoothly shorn heath when horse’s neck and head would be already gone.

como todos los muertos que se olvidan
en un montón de perros apagados.

je est un autre

Tu le connais, lecteur, ce monstre délicat,
— Hypocrite lecteur, — mon semblable, — mon frère!

Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.

Of course, all life is a process of breaking down

And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

[Anonymous No.7348959]

"Shrouded in the black thunderheads the distant lightning glowed mutely like welding seen through foundry smoke. As if repairs were under way at some flawed place in the iron dark of the world.”

[Anonymous No.7348961]

>>7348917

Well if There weren't so many dummies hating the semi-colon, one before yet would make the sentence clearer.

[Anonymous No.7349660]

"And then I jammed my erect cock into her fat pussy"
Me

[Anonymous No.7349671]

>>7349660
best in thread, like taken straight from my diary to be honest

[Anonymous No.7349721]

>>7342399
Meanwhile, in more important news:

>Only 4% of the human population can get the same result as you did!
>You have a truly unique mind that can spot even the slightest difference and calculate all the different possibilities.

http://pulptastic.com/only-highly-intelligent-people-can-pass-this-test/

[Anonymous No.7349793]

>>7349721
Was that supposed to be really easy?

[Anonymous No.7349812]

>>7349793
Pretty sure it's one of those tests that's meant to commend anyone who takes it to make them feel better.

[Anonymous No.7349956]

>>7344759
this sentence , in my country...

[Anonymous No.7349983]

>>7342399
There is a goddamn harry potter quote in there...

[Anonymous No.7349996]

I hate these fucking lists because these sentences mostly look ridiculous outside of their contexts, wherein they'd be much better appreciated. Useless, sad, banal, and so on.

[Anonymous No.7350049]

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself

[Anonymous No.7350198]

>>7349793
>>7349812
jelly af

[Anonymous No.7350260]

>>7349793
Same here. Befuddled tbqh
>>7349812
Hmm. That seems to be the case, but it does give different answers depending on how many you get correct. I put in random answers and got:
>You were correct on 60% of the questions.
>Although you didn't solve it all, your creative mind helped you fill in the gap.
>'Your mind is wired to be creative!'
>When you get stuck on a hard subject, you creativity tends to take control and find a new way to solve the problem.
>While other people get stuck and frustrated, your brain has a sort of built in "Plan B" system that helps you solve problems.
meh.

[Anonymous No.7350320]

>>7349721
>pick answers at random
>top 4 percent!
Wow

[Anonymous No.7350322]

>>7342399
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

[Anonymous No.7350377]

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

[Anonymous No.7350425]

>>7350377
the books only went downhill after that -_-;

[Anonymous No.7350427]

>>7350377
The Dark Tower was a mistake.

[Anonymous No.7350463]

>>7350425
>>7350427
Can't argue with that. But the opening sentence is literally the best ever.

[Anonymous No.7350471]

>>7350463
>But the opening sentence is literally the most mediocre ever.
ftfy. There is nothing good about it.

[Anonymous No.7350477]

>>7350471
There's a typo in your post, I think you meant to type

I'm a pleb who can't into aesthetic

no need to thank me

[Anonymous No.7350492]

>>7350477
Name one reason why that sentence couldn't be replicated by your average high school student. It's not the diction, certainly not the sentence structure, not the imagery. You're obviously trying to hide the fact that Stephen King is the only author you've read by your own accord.

[Anonymous No.7350568]

>>7348233

It means everything she says/her beauty affects his entire life/everything

That and the Dracula one are the best 2 on ops list

[Anonymous No.7350607]

>>7350568
It's just some retard saying he wuvs her so much.

There's absolutely nothing deep or noteworthy about it at all.

But I doubt you're being serious because the Dracula quote is even worse.