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Mark Helprin _ In Sunlight and in Shadow
Because two propositions can be true at once," he said. "Because the world is imperfect. Because we are imperfect. Because sometimes we're called upon to do terrible things. And because we define ourselves in dying, which is," he indicated by motioning with his head toward the arena, "what this is. Give us at least that.
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Mark Helprin _ In Sunlight and in Shadow
When you're in what seems like an impossible situation and it looks sure that you're going to be overrun, you have to keep in mind that only half of what the enemy does is actually going to put him in a position to overrun you. The other half is to communicate this so you'll do his work for him.
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Mark Helprin _ In Sunlight and in Shadow
For someone who is happy, celebration is yet another channel or instrument through which happiness may course. For someone who is not, celebration is a tedious parody of existence that seems pointless and false.
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Mark Helprin _ In Sunlight and in Shadow
Nothing is born as strong as it can become.
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Mark Helprin _ In Sunlight and in Shadow
They were already in love and both of them knew it, but for both it was too fast.
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Mark Helprin _ In Sunlight and in Shadow
Her eyes showed that though she may have decided to regret him, as long as he was in her presence she could not.
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Mark Helprin _ In Sunlight and in Shadow
That is, " Harry said, " because the world has never seen - in initiative, imagination, courage, and steadfastness - anything like the American fighting man. Not the Germans, the non-Germans, the semi-German Viennese, the British, the Scots, the Welsh, the Cornish, the Danish, or the Nepalese. You may in the future condemn us for it. You may continue to think that we are savage, disproportionate, and uncivilized. But we saved you the last time. And it is we, I guarantee you, will will liberate Paris and drive into Berlin. We don't like it. We don't like fighting and dying. But ... when it comes time for that, we are facile princeps, and will always be. We were born for it. The terrain of the New World educated us in it. That in America every man is a king assures us of it.
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Mark Helprin _ In Sunlight and in Shadow
You don't want to be content with yourself. People who are, are insufferable, the walking dead. But you don't want to be entirely driven, either, because then you just skate over the world and never touch it.
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Mark Helprin _ In Sunlight and in Shadow
Harry looked at Margaret and thought that, should a woman grow old, she might still have her deepest charm. Should a woman grow old, she would still be a woman, the essence of being so being so inerasable as never to vanish. And if men were to understand this as they, too, grew old, the world would be a happier place.
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Mark Helprin _ In Sunlight and in Shadow
It's a defining difference, curiosity. I've never known a stupid person who was curious, or a curious person who was stupid.
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Mark Helprin _ In Sunlight and in Shadow
Marriages are made in heaven which is why they cause so much trouble on earth.
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Mark Helprin _ In Sunlight and in Shadow
But each time he received an invitation from the Harvard Club to join…he postponed his application for the time when he could do little but rest in the kind of comfortable chair that is to the end of life what a cradle is to the beginning." Pg 55
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