What are some of the most poignant lines in literature?
It is from a film, but the story is about a storyteller so fuck it. pic related.
Blink now if you must
>>9758510
"I did it for you, son. I did it all for you," he said, just before exhaling his final breath.
"Don't die on me, pa! I can't make it on my own. I'm weak, pa. I'm weak. I'll never make it."
Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.
Help yourself, then everyone will help you.
>>9758843
From where?
Jetzt bin ich leicht, jetzt fliege ich, jetzt sehe ich mich unter mir, jetzt tanzt ein Gott durch mich.
"Another circle of adoring faces... glistening with rapture... The idiots! Human specks! What is this business of grovelling before dancers, novelists, and gigantic fairy opera singers? They're nothing but court jesters, nothing by light entertainment for... The Masters of the Universe, those who push the levers that move the world... and yet these idiots worship them as if they were pipelines to the godhead."
>>9758939
It's from one of my own (still unpublished) stories.
>>9759042
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>'And that was the story of his crime and punishment. The end.'
A truly powerful ending
>>9758510
Nobody ever said a day has to be juggled into any kind of sense at day's end.
- Pynchon
"Not a single drop of blood
remains in me that does not tremble --
I know the signs of the ancient flame."
>>9759545
From?
"Praise Kek you cuck"
- Unknown writer
>>9759571
Dante in Canto 30 of Purgatory, quoting Dido from the Aeneid.
P. much the greatest moment in literature
One enemy remained; two, if you counted God
>>9758510
"There is only one thing I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings."
be me 3
eating a cake
vomit the cake
cry to mommy
wow
My self image is based on the fact that I fly hang gliders.