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25 Of The Most Beautiful Single Sentences In All Of Literature

She was lost in her longing to understand. 
Kirsten Corley
August 26, 2016
“In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.”
— Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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“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, Nine Stories
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“Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.”
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
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“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
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“The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions)
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“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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“If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.”
— W. H. Auden, Collected Poems: Auden
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“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
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“And in that moment I swear we were infinite.”
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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“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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“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
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“In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart.”
— Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
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“The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.”
— Toni Morrison, Beloved
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“How wild it was, to let it be.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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“Do I dare / Disturb the universe?”
— T. S. Eliot, T. S. Eliot: Collected Poems, 1909-1962 (The Centenary Edition)
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“She was lost in her longing to understand.”
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera (Oprah's Book Club)
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“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
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“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, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
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“The half life of love is forever.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
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“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
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“Stay Gold, PonyBoy ”
— S.E Hinton, The Outsiders
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“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
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“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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“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
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“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
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