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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.
Mark Helprin
The world had courage, faith, beauty, and love, and it had music, which, although not merely an abstraction, was equal to the greatest abstractions and principles – its power to lift, clarify, and carry the soul forever unmatched.
Mark Helprin
strength floods in after a fall.
Mark Helprin
A profession is like a great snake that wraps itself around you. Once you are enwrapped, you are in a slow fight for the rest of your life, and the lightness of youth leaves you.
Mark Helprin
HERE AT THE GOLDEN GATE IS THE ETERNAL RAINBOW THAT HE CONCEIVED AND SET TO FORM. A PROMISE INDEED THAT THE RACE OF MAN SHALL ENDURE INTO THE AGES. Like
Mark Helprin
Weeks and months are needed to accustom oneself to climbing. Otherwise, much energy is lost in clinging to the rock, maintaining too sure a hold, trying not to be too stiff, and worrying. After a while a climber warms to the mountains and can accomplish with little effort those things that once took all he had, for height gradually loses its meaning. Standing on the edge of a two-thousand-meter precipice becomes no less comfortable than sitting in a wicker chair on Capri, for it is possible to acquire some of the self-possession that enables mountain goats to stand for hours on a tiny ledge above an abyss.
Mark Helprin
They knew that to survive in Manhattan he would have to know something of bitterness before he arrived.
Mark Helprin
One shouldn't ever do anything to protect one's dignity. You either have it or you don't.
Mark Helprin
If people love you for your soul, your face doesn't matter and you don't have to be perfect.
Mark Helprin
It was easy to argue with Quagliagliarello, if you had patience, and if you could pronounce his name.
Mark Helprin
People in my constituency are starving and born with sixteen fingers. Did you ever eat weasel shish-kebob? Freddy doesn't walk by the side of the motorways to gather dandelions for his salad, but the people who sent me here do. Why are we supporting him? He doesn't deserve it. The Tories won't give milk to children who go to school hungry and come home to baked cat.
Mark Helprin
For the first time, I had looked upon victory from the place of defeat, and because the victory was not my own, and I was apart from it, I felt it all the more. It was God's victory, the victory of the continuation of the world. It would bring me nothing, swell my fortunes not a bit. It was bitter, and I would always be outside, but never have I felt a deeper pleasure, never have I been more satisfied, for even if hardly anything was left of me, the world was full. And I was not the only one. A thousand men were on the train for seven hours, and in that time I do not believe a single word was spoken.
Mark Helprin
Never will anyone know you better than he who has known you when everything you have has been stripped away.
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