The very greatest novels pack sentences so prevailing that you stop reading, lower the book and simply live in the words for a moment. Here I pay tribute to a few most powerful sentences in novels.
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The body achieves what the mind believes.
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I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.
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It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.
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It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.
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We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.
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Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.
