Post the best sentence ever written

the best sentence ever written

the best sentence ever written

Life is.

the best sentence ever written

Life is the best sentence ever written

>>7754863
>memes
But seriously:
>"I am the devil, and I am here to do the devil's work."

the best sentence ever written

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HOW

YOU

A-DOIN'

you have now successfully downloaded all the porn.

>>7754863
You test result came back negative.

"In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.'
dickens said that

"How does it feel?"
bob dylan said that

>>7754935
Neil Young > Dylan

both musically and lyrically

I sit here and I wonder if the decadence of such a society is truly worth the risk of enlightenment; the more I open my eyes the more I am greeted by the impotent masses quivering and wavering in the distant sky, almost as if begging to return to earth; but when they are allowed to reverse what problem they have, instead of helping others they in-turn repeat mistakes and on even greater scales; these people don't deserve peace, they don't deserve anything.

>>7754942
Musically, yes. Lyrically...no.

>>7754942
musically, maybe, lyrically, nah

much love for neil though

L'amor che muove il sole e l'attre stelle

>>7754942
Leonard Cohen > Dylan and Young

>She came along the alley and up the back stairs the way she always used to.

>>7754959
Waits > Johnston = Dylan = Cohen > Young > Reed >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Bowie

L'éphémère ébloui vole vers toi, chandelle,
Crépite, flambe et dit: Bénissons ce flambeau!

>>7754959
>>7754968
unrankable

dylan, springsteen, young, and tom petty for me, and that's my dad rock pantheon

"You have successfully voted for Donald Trump"

>>7754953
>>7754951

as far as Dylan vs Young go, lyrically, Young's stuff feels more intimate and ''specific'' to me if that makes sense. I'm not knocking Dylan by the way, it's just I find Young's lyrics more interesting to me personally.

but hey, at least we can all agree they're both amazing and are still making uncompromising music.

/lit/ related: is Young's autobiography worth reading? I read Dylan's Chronicles recently and immensely enjoyed it, but I've heard some bad things about Young's book.

>>7754978
both of my divorced parents independently hated neil's book, apparently it's just the screed of an old yuppie

Riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

The AM were wicked bright and us a bit sick however we scored our wake ups boosting some items at a sidewalk sale in the Harvard Squar where it were warm upping and the snow coming off onnings and then later Poor Tony ran across an old Patty citizen type of his old aquaintance from like the Cape and Poor Tony got over and pretended like he would give a blow job on the house and we got the citizen to get in his ride with us and crewed on him good and we got enough $ off the Patty type to get straightened our for true all day and crewed on him hard and C wanted we should elemonade the Patty's map for keeps and everything like that and take his ride to this understanding slope strip shop he knows in Chinatown but Poor Tony turns white as a shot and Sai by no means and put up an argument and everything like that and we just left the type there in the vehicle off Mem Dr we broke the jaw for insensitive not to eat no cheese and C insisted and was not 2Bdenied and took off one ear which there was a mess and everything like that and the C throws the ear away in a dumster so yrstrulys' like so what was the exact pernt to that like.

My whole life I've been a fraud.

>>7754989
>he posts a sentence fragment
>doesn't realize finnegans wake is one continuous sentence

pleb detected

>>7754863
Molly Bloom's soliloquy in Ulysses.

Seven was better than none, as had been the case in my first two years, but most girls who take science are dogs, and I'm sorry to say that five of our seven were exactly that.

This has been in my head for weeks. Gorgeous.

I’m convalescing after a long and dreadful illness…I cannot brood over broken hearts, mine is too recently mended. - Nabokov

>>7755042
>finnegans wake is one continuous sentence
like the last sentence is the first dude lmao

"Her absence went through me like a needle through thread, everything i did was stitched with its colour."

This sentence fucked me up pretty hard after a break-up

>>7755054
That's more than one family. Pretty great though

This is not the greatest sentence in the world, no, this is just a tribute.

Jesus wept.

How grand we are this morning.

>>7754896
>I am the devil, and I am here to do the devil's work
Is that from The Devil's Rejects? Great movie.

"abandon all hope, ye who enter here."

>>7755190
Charles Manson said it first.

>>7754863
"By defending myself from the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the lord".

Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I’d strike the sun if it insulted me.

Wardine be cry.

She got a big booty so I call her big booty

>>7755245

That is a very good one. I'd also nominate this, in a somewhat similar vein:

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.

>>7755261
Beat me to it. Fuck.

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it - Hazel Motes
I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there. - Arthur Rimbaud

>>7754863

"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds"

>>7754942
Thankyou.
>lyrically
I will join you in this one. Less boring platitudes and more colorful. If Dylan is Frost then Young is Yeats.

>>7754863
I have forgotten my umbrella. -Nietzsche

>>7754942
Yung Lean > both

>>7755175
Ye's greatest line

>>7754942
lmao no. Neil young is cool but no

>>7754947
sauce?

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>>7755041
The very last sentence (not the footnoted one) was much better, tb quite h.

>>7754863
"OP is a faggot"
- Me

>>7754942
The only good thing about Dylan is that he fucked Joan Baez.

>>7754958
*altre
One job.

>>7755042
right except it's not a fragment
>Riverrun brings us back to Howth Castle and Environs.
also you don't use a subject in a green text. you don't say "he posts a sentence fragment", you just say "posts a sentence fragment" you dumb fuckin faggot newfag. and you have the nerve to call people plebs, fuck off you pretentious cocksucker

Snow-Balls have flown their Arcs, starr'd the Sides of Outbuildings, as of Cousins, carried Hats away into the brisk Wind off Delaware,-- the Sleds are brought in and their Runners carefully dried and greased, shoes deposited in the back Hall, a stocking'd-foot Descent made upon the great Kitchen, in a purposeful Dither since Morning, punctuated by the ringing Lids of various Boilers and Stewing-Pots, fragrant with Pie-Spices, peel'd Fruits, Suet, heated Sugar,-- the Children, having all upon the Fly, among rhythmic slaps of Batter and Spoon, coax'd and stolen what they might, proceed, as upon each afternoon all this snowy Advent, to a comfortable Room at the rear of the house, years since given over to their carefree Assaults.

>>7754863
"I would prefer not to."

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"The jews did it, and everything is fucked and gay."

>>7755447
this is so beautiful. the opening sentence of mason and dixon.

Here's my vote:

"If they fell by long and aged decay, yet wrapt up in the bundle of time, they fall into indistinction, and make but one blot with Infants. If we begin to die when we live, and long life be but a prolongation of death; our life is a sad composition; we live in death and die not in a moment." - Sir Thomas Browne, Urn-Burial

>>7754942
Songwriter of over 20 years here. Dylan kicks Neil in his druggie ass when it comes to lyrics.

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Here's a few:
“The key is to make it."
“Key to more success is a clean heart and a clean face.”
“They'll try to close the door on you... Just open it.”
“They don’t want you to jet ski.”
“The key to more success is coco butter.”
"Don't play yourself."
"Its so real out here right now, the only reason why you see anything is cuz I got the flash on"
-DJ Khaled

niggers tongue my anus

>>7755261
DFW is the most brilliant writer of all time.

>>7754904
fuck you, how do you get Joel's catchphrase wrong?

It's HELLO

ARE

YOU OK???

This is a song lyric but its still my favourite

"We pulled the trigger but forgot to cock, every single shot... Oh fuck it I guess we lost."

"εἰ μέν k᾽ αὖθι μένων Τρώων πόλιν ἀμφιμάχωμαι,
/ὤλετο μέν μοι νόστος, ἀτὰρ kλέος ἄφθιτον ἔσται:
/εἰ δέ kεν οἴkαδ᾽ ἵkωμι φίλην ἐς πατρίδα γαῖαν,/ὤλετό μοι kλέος ἐσθλόν, ἐπὶ δηρὸν δέ μοι αἰὼν/ἔσσεται, οὐδέ kέ μ᾽ ὦkα τέλος θανάτοιο kιχείη."
Iliad, 9.412-416

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>>7754863
>When I pull the piece out, niggas like "peace out!"

>>7755660
what kind of lost prophets my chemical romance green day tier shit is that

>>7755683
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGbQJ1d7QtI

>Thinking people on /lit/ listen to that sort of music

>>7754942
excuse me while i laugh uproariously and burn this monsanto years vinyl

>>7754863
"God said to Abraham, kill me a son, Abe say man you must be puttin' me on."

>>7755886
love that song so dearly

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.

>>7754863
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

I haven't read the book and it'll probably be dimissed as plebbery by /lit/ but whatever, I think it's beautiful:

“I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.” - Dickens, Great Expectations.

>>7755944
>>7755556
>>7755245
>>7754947

HARD MODE: NO SEMICOLONS
END YOUR SENTENCES WHEN THEY SHOULD HAVE ENDED, FAGGOTS

i'm kidding but i'm interested in seeing more brevity

Three nights before I arrived, I had a dream about Chip Kelly’s nonexistent daughter; she had no name, but she was giving me a handjob under the dinner table (over the pants at first, then she found her way under), and Chip was giving me the ‘she’s touching your wiener, isn’t she?’ look, so I told her to stop, but she wouldn’t; dream things happened, and suddenly she’s on top of me, and I’m on my back, and she’s grinding on me, and I see Chip Kelly over her shoulder at the end of a dimly-lit hallway, “stop.”

The part from blood meridian with the false coin maker hallucination and conjectural destiny stuff

>>7755990
I think you'll be hard pressed to find a "best sentence ever written" when you want brevity, at least in my opinion. When I think of "best" I think of great/beautiful prose, which tends to mean more lengthy and poetic sentences than something short and to the point.
Unless you mean content, then that is a whole other can of worms.

She sat at the window and watched the evening invade the avenue.

>>7754863
Best sentence is probably impossible. Maybe one could pin down the best paragraphs, but the absolute best one would demand the company of the chapter it's found in. One could certainly locate the best chapter; of this I have no doubt; but that would only be doable once the best book has been selected, and at that point we've entered a field too macroscopic to be anything but a matter of taste.

So, no.

>>7754947
That's not a sentence.

Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not read, you do not daydream. If you sleep it is not because you need to sleep. And when at last it is over, there is no evidence: no weapon, no blood, and no body. The only clue might be the shadows beneath your eyes or a terribly thin line near the corner of your mouth indicating something has been suffered, that in the privacy of your life you have lost something and the loss is too empty to share.

-House of leaves

the best sentence ever written

His mind skimmed the world, cities and fields and steeples and seas, mud and money, cut timbers, sweet shavings, blue hymnals, and the fuzz on a rose. Ass. His mind plunged unresisted into this truth: nothing matters but ass. Nothing is so good.

J. Updike "Couples"

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I'll post a few that I liked a lot.

"Not to be born is best
when all is reckoned in, but once a man has seen the light
the next best thing, by far, is to go back
back where he came from, quickly as he can."

"My immortality is necessary if only because God will not be guilty of injustice and extinguish altogether the flame of love for Him once kindled in my heart."

"They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more."

"And it will be easier, remember, to bend thy will to love one who adores thee, than to lead one to love thee who abhors thee now."

"For the long, looming days lay up a thousand things
closer to pain than pleasure, and the pleasures disappear,
you look and know not where
when a man's outlived his limit, plunged in age
and the good comrade comes who comes at last to all,
not with a wedding-song, no lyre, no singers dancing—
the doom of the Deathgod comes like lightning
always death at the last."

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>>7756042

I spent all goddamn day yesterday watching Scrubs on Netflix and masturbating.

godammit

"satan oscillate my metallic sonatas" ;^)

"No reason to get excited

The Thief he kindly spoke

There are many here among us

Who feel that life is but a joke

But you and I, we've been through that

And this is not our fate

So let us not talk falsely now

The hour is getting late"

I am become Death, the destoyer of worlds.

The last sentence of Molly Bloom's soliloquy may be the best option.

Perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.” -Salman Rushdie

"First there comes a terrifying realisation of the limitless uncontrolled changes now in progress, then wild stampedes, suspicions, mass murders and finally mus ridiculus the Hero emerges, a poor single, silly, little human cranium held high and adorned usually with something preposterous in the way of hats."

>>7754863
"Who is John Galt?"

Aleppe! Aleppe! Papa Satan!

Every single time I read it, I get chills.

>>7756032
I don't have the book around but there's a paragraph at the end of a chapter in Tale of Two Cities where I stopped reading the book for a week and just reread that part a few times a day.

>>7754924
Your paternity test. For your in-wedlock child.

Well my great grand-dad he died of cancer,
from smoking too many cigarettes.
But I must confess that he did quite profess
to being the coolest motherfucker I ever met.

>>7754935
>in a word
>says 22 words

All things are nothing to me.

>>7754958
All the three last verses are GOAT but this is even better

I'll lat you find it for yourself, senpai.

It's in Benito Cereno

>>7755584
Ethan pls go

"Once a bitch, always a bitch, what I say."

>>7756728
Better you than me.

"In the end it was faith that saved us, faith that showed us the truth, the light that shone the way to a whole new world, the real world, our world, home."

>>7754863
A rose is a rose is a rose.

>>7755314
Loved these

> "Veni, vidi, vici."

Greatest in western cannon

>"To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders."

Greatest in eastern cannon.

And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves.

>>7756075
Source of the last one, please?

"Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear"

"I have frequently not been on boats."

>>7756075
you have fine taste, my friend.

In the name of Annah the Allmaziful, the Everliving, the Bringer of Plurabilities, haloed be her eve, her singtime sung, her rill be run, unhemmed as it is uneven!

Joyce merges love with religious invocation

>>7756798
>"Veni, vidi, vici."
>Greatest in western cannon
kek
Half of Shakespeare is better than that

>>7754863
The best sentence ever written

>>7754863
Tho' I've belted you an' flayed you,
By the livin' Gawd that made you,
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!

>>7755142
fuck off

This isn't the best sentence, it's just a tribute

>>7755611
Actually though, the winrar behind this one puts it in serious contending by default.

>>7754863
"Call me Ishmael."

>" Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism. But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work."
From our very own Jim Joyce

All alike would be condemned to die one day; his turn, too, would
come like the others.

>>7755314
>I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there. - Arthur Rimbaud
Pfft, goes to show how superior English literature is to French """"""""""literature"""""""""" after we coopted the best parts of their language and combined them with the best parts of the Germanic tongues. John Milton wrote a far more elegant and multiplicitious version of that same though centuries before:
>The mind is its own place, and in itself
>Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven

Man who go to bed with itchy bottom, wake up with spicy finger on the morrow.

>>7757080
>OP asks for sentence
>anon gives excerpt
way to follow instructions.

You can call me Ishmael.

>>7755660
I like modest mouse too, but that's but the best sentence ever written

I don't think I can take
'cause it took so long to bake it
and I'll never know that recipe again.

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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.


The above is a quotation from Carl Sagan. Simple, symmetrical and an important concept.

>>7757226
*tips Fedora*

it's not even a Sagan quote, it's from Martin Rees

The dream of a dreamer is the belief to a beliefer.

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>>7756072
truly, the best

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>>7756213

>>7757096

TOLD
O
L
D

>>7755648
his name is joey dude

>>7757182
ha, MacArthur Park.

although the lyrics are somewhat gimmicky in terms of the device he's using, they're still really well written. Jimmy Webb really is underrated. the tune itself is just beautiful.

>>7756213
Literally the best thing I've ever read.

>>7754863
"start with the greeks"

Mistah Kurtz, he dead.

summe, optime, potentissime, omnipotentissime, misericordissime et iustissime, secretissime et praesentissime, pulcherrime et fortissime, stabilis et inconprehensibilis, inmutabilis, mutans omnia, numquam novus, numquam vetus, innovans omnia; in vetustatem perducens superboset nesciunt; semper agens, semper quietus, colligens et non egens, portans et implens et protegens, creans et nutriens, perficiens, quaerens, cum nihil desit tibi.

The square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides

or

Μητρός τε kαὶ πατρὸς kαὶ τῶν ἄλλων προγόνων ἀπάντων τιμιώτερόν ἐστιν ἡ Πατρὶς kαὶ σεμνότερον kαὶ ἁγιώτερον kαὶ ἐν μείζονι μοίρᾳ kαὶ παρὰ θεοῖς kαὶ παρ᾿ ἀνθρώποις τοῖς νοῦν ἔχουσι.

>>7756639
>counted the words

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

>>7758630
kys

Itinerant degenerates bleeding west like a heliotropic plague. - Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy

>>7755261
someone explain

blah blah blah dancing coins

you know the one

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

>>7755317
Oppenheimer would be proud

>>7756801
Patrician choice

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>Sentence

All I need is one word:

>Hwæt!

>>7754863

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

>You've taken your own clumsy, flabby soul and amplified it into a Universal Concept.

>>7756196
kek

>>7756643
KEK YOU FUCKING DISGUSTING PLEB DO YOU KNOW HOW FUCKING RIDICULOUSLY MISTRANSLATED THAT IS? HE LITERALLY SAYS "I HAVE BASED MY CAUSE UPON NOTHING" IN GERMAN YOU FUCKING DISGUSTING SHITTY TRANSLATION-READING PIECE OF SHIT

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Me ne frego.

>>7754863
"It was to be expected that this book would change, and to the extent that it questioned our terrestrial existence by charging it nonetheless with everything that it comprises on this or that side of the limits we are in the habit of assigning to it, that its fate would closely bound up with my own, which is, for example, to have written and not to have written books"

Andre Breton, the first line of the foreward to "Manifestos of Surrealism"

>>7758540
Both mother and father, and the other ancestors of the worthy are his Nation; and the holy, the pious, in this great land, understand both men and gods.

Did I translate it right?

>>7754942
Fuck off

>>7759597
Fascists not welcome.

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>>7754867
>>7754869
>>7754877
>>7754883
>>7754900

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Death is a gang-boss

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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>>7759719

>>7754863
Hell is empty, and all the devils are here!

>>7755175
for their where no more worlds to conquer

In this moment, I am euphoric.

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even a thief in jail is safe from another thief.

>>7756574
I have the book in front of me, what part, m8?

verum esse ipsum factum

>>7759983
no. absolutely wrong. there are other thieves in jail with you.

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>>7755360
DON'T FORGET YOUR UMBRELLA

"... and the tide was way out."

Sunset found her squatting in the grass, groaning.

>>7759983
Remember to tell that to Jamal when your virginal white ass ends up in the same cell as him.

"I am Jamal, destroyer of asses"

>>7755276

seconding this

>>7755175
Where is this from?

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Just be yourself.

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Call me Ishmael.

>>7754863
Nothin' personnel, kid

"It's a doggy dog world out there." - Anuška my bitch
"It's a dog eat dog world out there." - Babuška Anuškas momma

Sometimes, in my mind, I followed them to their apartments on the corners of hidden streets, and they turned and smiled back at me before they faded through a door into warm darkness.

>>7754863
When i look at people that i would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what i'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie.

>>7754863
Irregardless, its the same difference and I literally could care less for all intensive purposes so you're point is mute per say.

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>>7756812

Sorry for the late reply. The last one is from Oedipus at Colonus.

“The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.”

Ma all the gods of furious strong be with you as you crunch opposents, and live like a windrammer as you fuck.

>>7757125
Underrated

>>7761249
What's this from?

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>>7756409
Cuck/10

"Never, never, never, never, never!" - King Lear

I love the last five words of sonnet 23 by John Milton, especially in context:

Methought I saw my late espoused saint
Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave,
Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave,
Rescu'd from death by force, though pale and faint.
Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint
Purification in the old Law did save,
And such as yet once more I trust to have
Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint,
Came vested all in white, pure as her mind;
Her face was veil'd, yet to my fancied sight
Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shin'd
So clear as in no face with more delight.
But Oh! as to embrace me she inclin'd,
I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.

>>7759613
nice try

than your mother and your father and all your ancestors, your country is more precious and more to be revered and is holier and in higher esteem, among the gods and among men of understanding.

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"Live like a Windrammer as you fuck."

>>7754968
You must be baiting, fake hobo is the worst.

"La volupté unique et suprême de l'amour gît dans la certitude de faire le mal." (The most singular and highest delight of love lies in the certainty of doing evil.) - Baudelaire

"I should be glad of another death." - Eliot

>I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum

>Whiskey has its place and its place is in hell

https://archive.org/stream/MollyBloomMonologEnd/MollyBloomMonologhyEnd_djvu.txt

the best sentence ever written

I have learned that poetry requires a certain emptiness, as the sounding of a bell requires the space within it.

Mary Doria Russel, Children of God

Universally that person's acumen is esteemed very little perceptive concerning whatsoever matters are being held as most profitably by mortals with sapience endowed to be studied who is ignorant of that which the most in doctrine erudite and certainly by reason of that in them high mind's ornament deserving of veneration constantly maintain when by general consent they affirm that other circumstances being equal by no exterior splendour is the prosperity of a nation more efficaciously asserted than by the measure of how far forward may have progressed the tribute of its solicitude for that proliferent continuance which of evils the original if it be absent when fortunately present constitutes the certain sign of omnipollent nature's incorrupted benefaction.

>>7754863
the best sentence ever written

>>7754863
...then I wondered if her cunt would be soft to chew on.

>The man in Black fled across the Desert, and the Gunslinger followed.

>>7764939
and would it be warm, like the fuzzy sensation of slowly tonguing a cherry bubblegum swirling and dancing in your mouth.

>>7762248

The Great Gatsby. Full paragraph:

>I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye. I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove. Sometimes, in my mind, I followed them to their apartments on the corners of hidden streets, and they turned and smiled back at me before they faded through a door into warm darkness. At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others — poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner — young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

>>7754959
Can't argue with this, Cohen was a fantastic poet.
But personally I rank The Tallest Man on Earth as the best poet.
Most of his lyrics seemingly make no sense, but to me they really resonate, and I can understand where he's coming from.

Tempus fugit irreparabile

>>7754959
>>7754968
>>7754973
Nick Drake is better than all of them while being forgettable on the spectrum of rock music

Any sentence by Proust.
Thread is over. Thread is finished.

"Se vogliamo che tutto rimanga come è, bisogna che tutto cambi" il gattopardo

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Man is in love and loves what vanishes,
What more is there to say?

>>7765384
Thread is not finished unless you provide some examples, senpai.

>>7755421
I genuinely can't remember, you mean the last verse or the actual 215 words long ''last'' sentence being so good?

>>7760979
Kanye West's album, Yeezus

>>7765409
Je ne quittais pas ma mère des yeux, je savais que quand on serait à table, on ne me permettrait pas de rester pendant toute la durée du dîner et que, pour ne pas contrarier mon père, maman ne me laisserait pas l'embrasser à plusieurs reprises devant le monde, comme si ç'avait été dans ma chambre.

>>7755175
He wept over folks working on Sundays.

You get born and you try this and you dont 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 dont 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 cant 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 and all you have left is a block of stone with scratches on it provided there was someone to remember to have the marble scratched and set up or had time to, and it rains on it and the sun shines on it and after a while they dont even remember the name and what the scratches were trying to tell, and it doesn't matter.

>>7755447
yes

>>7756107
http://neatbeats.bandcamp.com/track/the-destroyer-of-worlds
Listen to this right now.

>>7754968
Reed is definitely on top.

>>7765410
I was thinking of the last part of that long-ass last sentence in particular, although it fits in with the whole sentence.

>...with David Wallace also fully aware that the cliché that you can’t ever truly know what’s going on inside somebody else is hoary and insipid and yet at the same time trying very consciously to prohibit that awareness from mocking the attempt or sending the whole line of thought into the sort of inbent spiral that keeps you from ever getting anywhere (considerable time having passed since 1981, of course, and David Wallace having emerged from years of literally indescribable war against himself with quite a bit more firepower than he’d had at Aurora West), the realer, more enduring and sentimental part of him commanding that other part to be silent as if looking it levelly in the eye and saying, almost aloud, ‘Not another word.’

>>7755935
Oh I love this one and I love levin

>>7756744
A nose is a nose is a nose.

>>7754978
>Young's stuff feels more intimate and ''specific'' to me if that makes sense.

I definitely agree. Stuff like Ohio, Southern Man or Cortez the Killer seem to be very blunt but in a way that is different from them being shallow.
It is like is guitar playing. It doesn't matter if they aren't super poetic or whatever because his passion and emotion carries through.
I feel like it kind of reached a point beyond being artistic and just trying to get your message out there. Like it is too important to try and spend time drowning it in metaphors and too important to risk the listener misinterpret it.

When other musicians try to do stuff like that it seems to end up sounding shallow and stupid, but Neil Young can pull it off, which is part of his genius.

I M O T B H F A M

>>7755391
>>7765416

Fucking plebs

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>>7765728
forgot the pic

>>7754863
yo, seagull

>>7754863
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

'Know thyself'

>>7756639
"impossible" is the singular word to which he refers.

Pleb.

En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor

"Eh bien, continuons!"
>ils restent sur place

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I'm incredibly proud of /lit/ for not once, in this entire thread, mentioning "A screaming comes across the sky".

And yes, I just became "that guy"

>>7764357
i liked proteus more.

>>7767879
ClickHole is the apex of the Western world.

This is the greatest and best sentence in the world


...tribute

>>7769510
Reddit Reddit Reddit Reddit Reddit

Make America Great Again

>>7754863
The screaming came across the sky

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

>>7769646
Just started the book, afterI having finished Ivan Il'ic. Damn is the nigga good, every single sentence could be a contender.

>>Her antiquity in preceding and surviving successive tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to render insane, to incite to and aid delinquency....

>>7756034
wow, this would have been my choice as well

How Stange It Is To Be Anything At All...

People are my religion because I believe in them- Andrew Jackson jihad

>>7759613

Do you post in /classical/ anymore

>>7769990

>Purple
>Prose

>>7765316
Second for Drake, the virginity is so relatable.

/sci/ here
Best sentence in the world is obviously HΨ=EΨ

>>7756072
is that really from updike?

Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,
Whether summer clothe the general earth
With greeness, or the redbreast sti and sing
Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch
Of mossy apple-tree, while the nigh thatch
Smikes in the sun-thaw; whether the eave-drops fall
Heard only in the trances of the blast,
Or if the secret ministry of frost
Shall hang them up in silent icicles,
Quietly shining to the quiet Moon.

>>7754863
I don't need to justify my existence, only my actions.

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Let L denote the language {∀} u {x} u {=} u {(, )}, and let (i)-(iv) clauses define L's grammar as follows:

(i) if ° is a variable, then ° is a term
(ii) if ° and ^ are variables, and * a binary relational symbol, then ° * ^ is a formula of L
(iii) if ° is a variable, and @ a formula, then ∀°(@) is a formula
(iv) nothing else is a term or a formula unless it follows from clauses (i)-(iii)

Put forth the best sentence ever written: ∀x(x=x)

Fix a model <D, S, I> where D is a non-empty set denoting everything in existence, S, the signature of our language L, and an interpretation function I, that we now use to interpret the only binary relational symbol in our language: '='. I(=) = {<x,y> ∈ D x D : x = y} and we're done. Thus, we may now interpret our best sentence ever written as saying: Everything is identical to itself.

They looking back, all the Eastern side beheld
Of Paradise, so late their happy seat,
Waved over by that flaming Brand, the Gate
With dreadful Faces thronged and fiery Arms:
Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon;
The World was all before them, where to choose
Their place of rest, and Providence thir guide:
They hand in hand with wand'ring steps and slow,
Through Eden took their solitary way.

>>7770007
And One Day We Will Die...

>>7756639
>counted the words.

I present to you: Life on the Spectrum

they call me nihilistic degenerator, i prefer hedonistic masturbator

>>7754863
""no""

>>7770303
'john is kill'

"Did you ever hear the Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise? It's a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith so powerful and so wise, he could use the Force to influence the midi-chlorians to create...life. He had such a knowledge of the Dark Side, he could even keep the ones he cared about...from dying. He became so powerful, the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power...which, eventually of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew. Then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save others from death...but not himself."

>>7770048
e^(i*pi)+1=0

"There is no nonvanishing continuous tangent vector field on even-dimensional n-spheres"
I must confess I have something of a weakness for this sort of charming southernism. It juxtaposes nicely with the-hogs-ate-willy melodrama so conspicuous in the genre.

I could post some fancy Proustian shit which I do genuinely enjoy but I love this one too much, maybe it's the context of it.

But I’m brought back to cool wintry days, sledding with you on Birch’s hill: young, in sodden socks, you with handsome blonde hair, pale skin and gentle blue eyes.

>>7770345
It actually kills me that people think this is some deep shit because it's rather obvious right from the definition that x->exp(i*x) maps R onto the unit circle in C (like half a page in the preface of Papa Rudin.) Literally no mystique whatsoever unless you don't bother to define exponentiation and run around yelling "LOL TIMES ITSELF iπ TIMES LOL" which is a meaningless statement.

"Sure I know. A boy loves his dog."

>>7770384
really interesting einstein, now post that in english

>>7754942
Cohen > any other singer-songwriter of the 20th century

Mr. Grey will see you now, Miss Steele

Sought in faith by those wormish and abject accessories of the academic community, the life sciences center offered a berating not unlike that they might find in any corner of the remainder of their lives, be it scholarly or otherwise.

>>7754863
Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?

We sit together, the mountain and I, until only the mountain remains.

"I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood."

>>7770940
Sounds like Henry Miller.

>>7770954
Joyce, actually (Araby from Dubliners).

>>7770993
Cool.

>>7770940
>all my foolish blood
A very irish-sounding expression

>>7770940
That story is marvellous

>>7756072
What's up dike?

>>7754863
dindu nuffin

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Ā scyle geong mon wesan geomormod

Because it is my name.

I fucked OP's girlfriend while he watched eagerly.

And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand,
The hand that held the steel:
For only blood can wipe out blood,
And only tears can heal:
And the crimson stain that was of Cain
Became Christ's snow-white seal.

>>7754989
Hi /soc/

>>7770016
hahaha i know

Joyce is still cool despite this.

>>7770293
And our ashes will fly....

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>this sentence is a lie.

>>7772058
>not one of the stronger versions
pleb

>>7759313
Came here looking for this.

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

>>7756798
>veni, vidi, vici

Every woman's husband and every husband's woman.

Ah, Julius...

''Dusk is falling, the first lights are going on in the town.''

Everything that exists without my knowledge exists without my consent

Or

God how the stars did fall

>>7772276
Is this John Green?

>>7772282

Yes.

>>7755447
Nearly perfect, but something in it gives up right before the end.
I'll have to back >>7755276.

>>7771423
It's shit.

They asked me how well I understood theoretical physics. I said I had a theoretical degree in physics. They said welcome aboard.

>>7772368
ONE sentence idiot.

>>7772370
They asked me how well I understood theoretical physics, I said I had a theoretical degree in physics, so they said welcome aboard.

>>7772373
>best sentence ever
>abusing commas abysmally

>>7757226
>symmetrical
chiastic, you mean?

>>7754863

Love hides in molecular structure!

-Jim morrison

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Don't despair, not even over the fact you don't despair.

>>7772440
I suppose you don't read much Dickens

>>7772368
Fantastic!

>>7772276
>Everything that exists without my knowledge exists without my consent
This is the dumbest thing I've ever read.

>>7772503
Fuck love, where's that Pessoa's quote when you need it?

>>7772588
>>7772503
Didn't find the whole quote.
"We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love."

>>7754942
I'd say even Billy Joel its better than Dylan. I fucking hate Bob Dylan.
t. shitty songwriter

>>7755195
Best translation.

>>7772848
>>7755195
You mean "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate".
Had to look this shit up, it's not even Italian.

>>7755693
A girl painted me something with Modest Mouse lyrics on it for Christmas. I didn't know what they were and she could tell I thought she was a pleb.

>>7772859
>she could tell I thought she was a pleb.
Well, is she?

>>7772869
She's pretty plebby. She drew me a girl saying "everyone cares" recently. I appreciate her trying to cheer me up but not the platitudes.

>>7772890
When you're afraid to show your own feelings you end up using formular phrases. Or maybe she's just a pleb. Still better than a kick in the balls.

>>7772917
She's pretty open with her feelings actually. She writes poetry that's pretty personal and intimate. Just a pleb I guess.