Whats your favourite sentence in literature?
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Could be a few sentences even
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**"At the still point, there the dance is." —T. S. Eliot.
:love:**
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"I don't think…" "Then you shouldn't talk", said the Hatter.
Plenty of my favourites are in Alice, but this one rocks it all.
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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…
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"The End" - every book ever
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"Man, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada"
Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"
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"Man, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada"
Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"
The Devil's Dictionary?
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1911 satirical work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil's_Dictionary -
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