Perhaps things are most beautiful when they are not quite real; when y…

Mark Helprin
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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. ✨ Mark Helprin (2017). Ellis Island and Other Stories, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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