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  1. Mark Helprin _ Ellis Island and Other Stories

    Truth is not anchored to the ground by driven piles. It can float and take to the air; it is light and lovely and delicate. It is feminine as well as masculine. It is often gentle, and sometimes it can even make a fool of itself-but when it does it calls down God {who protects weak creatures}, and suddenly its foolishness becomes a blazing, piercing light.
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  2. Mark Helprin _ Ellis Island and Other Stories

    Perhaps things are most beautiful when they are not quite real; when you look upon a scene as an outsider, and come to possess it in its entirety and forever; when you live in the present with the lucidity and feeling of memory; when, for want of connection, the world deepens and becomes art.
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