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141 Of The Most Important Sentences In All Of Literature

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Kirsten Corley
October 27, 2016
“What stares us in the face is often the most difficult to perceive.”
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man
Tagged: Seeing Seeing, Aphorisms, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Tagged: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Childrens Books, Meaning, purpose
“Impossible; for how many people did you know that refracted your own light to you?”
— Guy Montag, Fahrenheit 451
Tagged: Bridge, Communication, Communications, Light, Mirror Writing, Thought Catalog Producers
“The purpose of art is to transfer feeling from one person’s heart to another person’s heart.”
— David Shields, How Literature Saved My Life
Tagged: Purpose of Art, Art, My Heart To Your Heart, IWroteThis4You, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“There is no passion without secrecy, this secrecy where everything is nonetheless said.”
— Jacques Derrida, The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Derrida
Tagged: The Secret of Secrecy, Passion, Against Transparency, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Every one of us is like a man who sees things in a dream and thinks that he knows them perfectly and then wakes up to find that he knows nothing.”
— Plato, The Life of the Mind: Vols 1&2
Tagged: You Know Nothing, Ex-formation, Socrates Thesis, (EX)Formation, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“I look at you and a sense of wonder takes me.”
— Homer, The Odyssey
Tagged: Love, Wonder, beauty, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“And I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
— Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.”
— Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven
Tagged: Defining Happiness, Joy, How Happiness Works, Happy, Shooting Stars, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
— David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
Tagged: Identity, Your Uniqueness, What Makes Us Different, Beliefs, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
— Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity
Tagged: Change, Move With It, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Honesty, Most Honest Person, Virute, Cardinal Virtues
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Time, Past, Famous Last Lines
“He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Recover Something, Lost In Time
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Tagged: Philosophy
“All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.”
— Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Tagged: Self-improvement, Self-awareness, Self-Worth, Be Positive, Be Kind
“Beauty remains, even in misfortune.”
— Ann Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
Tagged: beauty, The Obstacle Is The Way, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Tagged: Wake Up, Alive But Dead, Sleep Walking, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.”
— J.K Rowling, The Casual Vacancy
Tagged: Choice, Possibility, Life, Direction, one perfect sentence, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.”
— John Irving, The World According to Garp
Tagged: Heartbreak, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature
“And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous country that by then, in retrospect, was no more to us than a collection of dog-eared maps, ruined tour books, old tires, and her sobs in the night— every night, every night— the moment I feigned sleep.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (Vintage International)
Tagged: Love, Life, travel, Sadness, one perfect sentence, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Dating
“But to pay attention is to love everything.”
— Sarah Manguso, The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir
Tagged: Love, Life, Attention, Direction, one perfect sentence, Affirm Everything, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Her legs swing complete afternoons away.”
— Jill Eisenstadt, From Rockaway
Tagged: daydream, Summer, Happiness, Youth, one perfect sentence, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.”
— Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
Tagged: Love, self control, Thoughts, one perfect sentence, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Beauty is terror.”
— Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
Tagged: Fear, beauty, Philosophy, Life, one perfect sentence, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“I wish I'd done everything on earth with you.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Love, Regret, Relationships, Breakups, Change
“It was strange the way he loved her; a side long and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter of course, too natural to mention.”
— Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding
Tagged: casual, Love, Relationships, Natural, Fate, one perfect sentence, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.”
— Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Tagged: Anne Frank, Alone, Lonely, Love, God
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (Bantam Classics)
Tagged: yesterday, Change, Life, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences