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Mark Helprin
They always say about the soldier that he's detached. That's true, for he's been in the eye of the storm, his heart has been broken, and he doesn't even know it.
Mark Helprin
These are the things in which I was so helplessly caught up, the waves that took me, what I loved. When light filled my eyes and I was restless and could move, I knew not what all the color was about, but only that I had a passion to see. And now that I am still, I pass on to you my liveliness and my life, for you will be taken, as once I was, and although you must fight beyond your capacity to fight and feel beyond your capacity to feel, remember that it ends in perfect peace, and you will be as still and content as am I, for whom centuries are not even seconds.
Mark Helprin
The eighth and ninth floors housed the library. It had several million volumes in open stacks, all the major newspapers and periodicals either bound or on computer, and a map section. Expert librarians maneuvered a seemingly limitless budget to keep it well maintained and up-to-date. The reference collections were wonders of the world.
Mark Helprin
Its funny, as soon as you lose faith, you have children, and life reawakens.
Mark Helprin
Rome was not meant to move, but to be beautiful. The wind was supposed to be the fastest thing here, and the trees, bending and swaying, to slow it down. Now
Mark Helprin
Peter Lake spurred the horse again, and extended his right arm like a lance, pointing it at the motionless officer. As they went by in a blur of white, he lifted the man's cap from his head, saying, "Allow me to take your hat." The enraged policeman pivoted, took out his notebook, and furiously wrote a description of the horse's buttocks.
Mark Helprin
Off Castle Garden, a mile to the southeast, near the western edge of Governors Island, a ship lay resting through a foggy spring night before the long and arduous trip back to the old world-whether Riga, Naples, or Constantinople is not certain.
Mark Helprin
Though it would take a long time for him to understand the principle, it was that to be paid for one's joy is to steal.
Mark Helprin
Connoisseurs of paintings were curiously indifferent about color itself, and were seldom possessed by it. Rather, they possessed it. And they seemed to be easily seated. They were like the gourmets, who had to build castles of their food before they could eat it. They confused beauty and knowledge, passion and expertise.
Mark Helprin
Nothing is born as strong as it can become.
Mark Helprin
to defeat pain he had to separate it from time, its most useful ally.
Mark Helprin
There are times for sleep, for inactivity, dreaming, indiscipline, even lethargy. You'll know when you deserve these times. They come after you've been broken.
Mark Helprin
For the first time in his life, he felt exactly what he was, and he was not impressed.
Mark Helprin
All great discoveries, the elder Marratta had once said, are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents. At
Mark Helprin
Isn't it better to think nothing than to think something that is completely idiotic?
Mark Helprin
You don't have to believe me. It's all right if you don't. The beauty of the truth is that it need not be proclaimed or believed. It skips from soul to soul, changing form each time it touches, but it is what it is, I have seen it, and someday you will, too. He
Mark Helprin
the greater the stillness, the farther you could travel, until, in absolute immobility, you achieved absolute speed.
Mark Helprin
Besides, he grew up in the city of the poor. You know as well as I do that in this country Marxism is a religious passion of the middle class.
Mark Helprin
Columba, the rabbit, Canis Major, Docyon, Betelgeuse, Rigel, Orion, Taurus, Castor, Capella, Cassiopia, Ursa, Cepheus, Vega, the Northern Cross, Swan, Deneb, Delphin, Andromeda, Triangle, Aries, wheels, fish, aquarius, Pegasus, Fomalhaut.
Mark Helprin
Albany sometimes tried to rattle, but failed to emit an audible sound.
Mark Helprin
The first was that it was almost impossible to get. The second, that, once you had it, it was almost impossible to keep. The third, that these laws applied only to each individual but not to anyone else. In other words, though money was impossible to get and impossible to keep, for everyone else it flowed in by the bucketful and stayed forever.
Mark Helprin
Craig Binky decided that to salvage his position he would bear any burden and pay any price, and find out exactly what was going on. He had to redeem his honor. He decided to ask a computer. He
Mark Helprin
For the next hour or two, keeping up with Alessandro would be a task that would set the boy to breathing hard and make him think that something might be wrong with his heart, because he found it difficult to stay even with an old man who carried a cane and whose every step was a cross between an uncontrolled pivot and a barely arrested fall.
Mark Helprin
I have three hooves in the pasture and one already in the grave, but I have a few things more to tell before I get to the smoke and thunder.
Mark Helprin
By this time, no matter how hard he tried to understand, Nicolò's eyes had begun to glaze, but Alessandro had no fear of bending green cane, because he knew it seldom broke. Remember this, then-even if
Mark Helprin
still, if it's hot enough I'll lie in the sun and feel at least three types of despair: despair that life is mostly gone and I've wasted it; despair that I cannot feel now what I thought I would if I saw all my struggles through; and despair that, because I don't know any other course to take, nothing will change.
Mark Helprin
The world goes this way and that. Ideas are in fashion or not, and those who should prevail are often defeated. But it doesn't matter. The virtues remain uncorrupted and uncorruptible. They are rewards in themselves, the bulwarks with which we can protect our vision of beauty, and the strengths by which we may stand, unperturbed, in the storm that comes when seeking God.
Mark Helprin
Physical features count little unless they are illumined from within.
Mark Helprin
Small scenes can be so beautiful that they change a man forever.
Mark Helprin
Do you know why you walk slowly when you're old?" "No." "Because with age you receive the gift of friction. The less time you have, the more you suffer, the more you feel, the more you observe, and the more slowly time moves even as it races ahead." "I don't understand." "You will.
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