I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire I give it to you not that you may remember time but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it.

We traced this passage directly to William Faulkner's *The Sound and the Fury* (1929), where it appears in Quentin Compson's "June Second, 1910" section as the remembered words of his father, Jason Compson III, handing over the grandfather's watch. The full sentence reads "I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciatingly apt that you will use it to gain the reductio absurdum of all human experience... I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it" — the popular version simply trims the middle clause, which is why it reads so smoothly as a standalone line. Scholarly works quoting the passage bear this out, including Mary Weaks-Baxter's *Leaving the South* (2018), which cites it at page 93 and identifies it with Quentin, and Brittany Powell Kennedy's *Between Distant Modernities* (2015), both of which reproduce the wording essentially as circulated. One stray claim tying the line to *As I Lay Dying* does not hold up — that phrasing is not in that novel, and the attribution to the correct Faulkner novel is firmly supported. The only nuance worth noting is that these are the words of a character rather than Faulkner in his own voice, but standard editorial convention credits a novelist's prose to the novelist, and no competing author or earlier origin exists. We are marking this quotation as verified.