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  1. Mark Helprin _ A Soldier of the Great War

    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. I'm speaking of a helpless, tranquil state before the great excitement of dawn.
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  2. Mark Helprin _ A Soldier of the Great War

    Civilians seldom understand that soldiers, once impressed into war, will forever take it for the ordinary state of the world, with all else illusion. The former soldier assumes that when time weakens the dream of civilian life and its supports pull away, he will revert to the one state that will always hold his heart. He dreams of war and remembers it in quiet times when he might otherwise devote himself to different things, and he is ruined for the peace. What he has seen is as powerful and mysterious as death itself, and yet he has not died, and he wonders why.
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  3. Mark Helprin _ A Soldier of the Great War

    Your materialism will make you suffer terribly not only at the end but also on the way.
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  4. Mark Helprin _ A Soldier of the Great War

    I've had a profession for a number of years, and it has mastered me. 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. You don't have time, for example, to think about the city even as you are walking through it."
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  5. Mark Helprin _ A Soldier of the Great War

    I can tell you only that beauty cannot be expressed or explained in a theory or an idea, that it moves by its own law, that it is God's way of comforting His broken children.
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  6. Mark Helprin _ A Soldier of the Great War

    His existence is not a question of argument but of apprehension. Either you apprehend God, or you do not.
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  7. Mark Helprin _ A Soldier of the Great War

    You don't do things by halves. If you love a woman, you love her entirely. You give everything. You don't spend your time in cafes; you don't make love to other women; you don't take her for granted. Do you understand?
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  8. Mark Helprin _ A Soldier of the Great War

    You're always condemned to die. It's just a matter of timing.
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  9. Mark Helprin _ A Soldier of the Great War

    Don't worry about me, no matter what happens. We're nervous here, but not afraid. We have all looked into our souls, one way or another, and are content to die if need be. The only thing left to say is that I love you.
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  10. Mark Helprin _ A Soldier of the Great War

    Honor is a complex and important matter best served by doing the right thing.
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  11. Mark Helprin _ A Soldier of the Great War

    what happens when you let go, when your strength leaves you and you sink into darkness, when there's nothing that you or anyone else can do, no matter how desperate you are, no matter how you try? Perhaps it's then, when you have neither pride nor power, that you are saved, brought to an unimaginably great reward.
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  12. Mark Helprin _ A Soldier of the Great War

    At this instant, Alessandro was electrified, as if lightning had struck the telephone wire or Saint Elmo's fire had filled the room, for part of the dream that he could not recall had come back to him with full force.
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