Perhaps he was a fool, but he thought that if a work were truly great …

Mark Helprin
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Perhaps he was a fool, but he thought that if a work were truly great you would only have to read it once and you would be stolen from yourself, desperately moved, changed forever. ✨ Mark Helprin (2005). A Soldier of the Great War, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Perhaps he was a fool, but he thought that if a work were truly great you would only have to read it once and you would be stolen from yourself, desperately moved, changed forever. ✨ Mark Helprin (2005). A Soldier of the Great War, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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