What's your single favourite line from a book, /lit/?

>Aujourd’hui, maman est morte.
It's simple, and it sets the tone of the book well.

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>>7538111
I know saying this is really beating a dead horse, but
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

This never fails to give me chills, I always feel melancholic after reading it.

Y a veces me sucedía que cuando yo pasaba frente a una de mis ventanas ella estaba esperándome muda y ansiosa (¿por qué esperándome? ¿y por qué muda y ansiosa?); pero a veces sucedía que ella no llegaba a tiempo o se olvidaba de este pobre ser encajonado, y entonces yo, con la cara apretada contra el muro de vidrio, la veía a los lejos sonreír o bailar despreocupadamente o, lo que era peor, no la veía en absoluto y la imaginaba en lugares inaccesibles o torpes. Y entonces sentía que mi destino era infinitamente más solitario que lo que había imaginado.

>>7538111
He had hands which grimaced, hands which sneered; he had hands which explained, expostulated, threatened, wept; which touched like buttocks in apparent prayer, which joked, which jeered; hands that danced and sang and held the dagger—creating, conducting, eliciting the word—hands which uttered every innuendo, misled, lied, which latched and locked, insulted and defied; hands which greeted one another like old boozing friends, which squeezed yours unexpectedly and left them wet; outstretched, open, pleading hands crisscrossed by lines for life and love and fate, runnels rushing toward the twiddle finger, fat and ringed, the Mounts of Moon and Mercury rising from a plain of soft pink skin, the Girdle of Venus, too, a Via Lasciva like some Gasse in Hamburg; head, health, heart lines, and all the pulpy cushions of the palm, etched as finely as a counterfeiter's plate; hands wholly unlike mine, like Pilate's, water and towel to one another, thumbs and fingers disappearing into the shadow of a duck, a fox, a bear, a skirt; hands which were the equal of another's eye; which were, from time to time, I'm sure, both cock and cunt.

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>>7538111
>Better to rule in hell than serve in heaven.

They should do a modern version of Paradise Lost like that one version of Romeo and Juliet with guns.

>>7538111
Alright then, I'll go to hell.

>>7538211
>modern paradise lost
i'd fund it

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>>7538610
THEN I'LL SEE YOU IN HELL!!!!

>>7538623
Didn't they do this and isn't it called Dogma"

>>7538116
>>7538166
ENGRISH PREASE

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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

>>7538696
Muh dik

>>7538696
>look at thumbnail
>haven't seen this dfw meme before

END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK

>>7538111
'Inevitable, that the fiery soul of humanity races forward to a future of ash'

If anyone know what this is from I'll eat my hat

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>>7538696
How did we go from that to this?

>>7538734
someday you'll get old. unless you die first. choose one.

Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure.

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>>7538696
>>7538734
Don't know.

"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."

>>7538610
>IF THE ZOO BANS ME FOR HOLLERING AT THE ANIMALS I WILL FACE GOD AND WALK BACKWARDS INTO HELL
>dril, 2012

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>>7538111
>God's in heaven, all's right in the world
This line killed and buried 90% of my edginess for good.

>Canary burgundy, I call it lemon red, yellow diamonds in my ear, call em Lemonheads

To die or not to die, that was the question.

Not fuck, like in those movies.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which.

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"I put the toilet lid up and tugged out the frankfurter."

>>7538111
>Mytia and Blyatinov have arrived. now we are reunited, The Brothers Karamazov Translated by Volokhonsky & Pevear with a foreword by Vladimir Nabokov

“St Kilda presented man with almost insurmountable odds. Under such conditions of geography and climate Man became infinitesimal before the Infinite”

- Tom Steel, “The Life and Death of St Kilda”

From the docks a ship's siren unsourced itself.

This one is a failure, and had to be, since it was written by a pillar of salt.

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>>7539995
Norwegian is funny like that. We have a lot of idiomatic expressions for taking a shit and piss.

Like: "Skvise ut en Snickers" = Squeezing out a Snickers.

"Sjösette Obama" = Set sail to Obama

And for pissing we have stuff like: "Strupe jöden" = Strangling the Jew.

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"So it goes"

>>7538111

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”

"All was well."

The last sentence of the book series that got me into reading as a child.

>>7539856

killa cam is definitely /lit/

>>7540464
So it goes.

>>7538734

Rampant cocaine abuse, monthly ECT treatment, sic transit gloria mundi, etc.

Carrie Fisher's completely bats.

It's actually amazing she isn't looking much, much worse.

>>7538111

“I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.”

"and but so"

Thinking about getting it as a tattoo.

>>7540515

Why not get a "This is Water" tattoo instead?

I'm calling one, very persistent troll in this thread.

>>7540537
>I'm calling one, very persistent troll in this thread.

What do you mean by this?

>>7538720
Underrated post

I'm complex.

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>>7540428

>>7540428

Laying cables

>>7538661
Today, mamma is dead.
>not knowing basic French and Spanish
How do you EVEN lit?

>>7538734
Well, would you fuck her now? I would.

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"And but so in the end it was all just an infinite Jest"

In sooth, I know not why I am so sad.

>>7538116
My English edition keeps it at maman and I love that decision.

>>7540464
I wrote a punk song ten years ago with this refrain. No one got it. They wanted me to change it. I still loved it.

>>7541839
>Today, mamma is dead.

It's passed tense baka desu senpai. Mother died today.

>>7538627
Underrated.

>>7538111
Hosanna to the Son of David. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord - Book of Matthew
I find it rhythmically pleasing in English.

>>7542477
Shittiest line in the bible desu.

>>7538111
“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

"Human life isn't even worth a line of Baudelaire."

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>>7538111
I don't have one, but I love the entire monologue that this quote comes from in Cyrano de Bergerac. Shit I love the play, and the real man was one of the grandfathers of science-fiction writing.

"I am too proud to be a parasite,
And if my nature wants the germ that grows
Towering to heaven like the mountain pine,
Or like the oak, sheltering multitudes-
I stand, not high it may be-but alone!”

>>7538623
I've wanted it forever. There are a few literary works focused on Christianity that I've wanted to see as movies which seem to be ignored for shit like Legion.

""What?"
–Richard Nixon"
–Thomas Pynchon

>>7538111
Crime and Punishment
I more or less worship Sonya in some deranged pseudo christian way

>>7542766
>Human life isn't even worth a line of Baudelaire

name?

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My God, a whole moment of happiness! Is that too little for the whole of a man's life?

>>7542902
A Fool's Life by Ryuunosuke Akutagawa. It's very autobiographical and he wrote it just before he killed himself. His short stories are very different, but still great nonetheless.

"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."

O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.

>>7542923
That's from White Nights, right? I just re-read it this week, but are you sure that translation is right? The translation I read (in Portuguese of Portugal) says something more to the lines of "My God, a whole minute of happiness! After all, isn't that enough to fill a man's whole life?", which seems more... adequate, considering the character who said it. I don't know shit about this translation I read though, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was wrong or at least not exactly right/close to the original meaning.

>>7540570

>complex

Dear god, triggered. Did anyone else find the frequency of this word totally jarring?

>One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

>>7538111
“In my dreams I kiss your cunt, your sweet wet cunt. In my thoughts I make love to you all day long.”
The book was meh but I always loved this line. I went to a rave once and used it as an opener. It was pretty funny.

>>7538610

I remember watching a documentary on Independent Lens about 10 years back about a super-enthusiastic English teacher who taught Shakespeare and American writers to inner-city youth at a public school. Young kids, like 12 or 13. There was a scene where they were reading that section of Huck Finn and this one little kid read that line out loud and just burst into tears.

I've never experienced a book that fully, and it was a beautiful scene

>>7538111

"See the child."

>>7539851
that line made you think you lost your edginess

>>7542438
today, maman died.

if you're a pedantic French that can't engrish

>>7542952
>Hamlet
Entry level at best desu.

Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

>Alackaday, and fuck my luck

I say this to myself sometimes. Idk why

>>7538111
>"Since the times of John the Baptist the Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence, and the violent bear it away."

"If you want to shine like a sun first you have to burn like it!"

>>7538111
Well I'm pleb tier, but Vonnegut has some great ones.

>>7538111
So it goes...

>>7538111
A creaming came across the pie.

>>7540482
I especially love the first line, I even got the initials as my password.

"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley were proud being completely normal"

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>>7542980
Did you score?

>>7538720
keks

>>7542986
That was probably one of the fifteen million movies made with that exact premise.

"The boy's face was obliterated in a sheet of blood."

>>7542964
frequency of this word?
It's used like twice within 1079 pages.