...this marvelous graceful thing, this joy of physics, this perfect ba…

Mark Helprin
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...this marvelous graceful thing, this joy of physics, this perfect balance between rebellion and obedience, is God's own signature on earth. ✨ Mark Helprin (1983). Winter's Tale, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals. ✨ Mark Helprin (1989). Winter's Tale, Pocket Books
I'm not afraid, Rafi said. Why not? If I die tomorrow it will have been useless to have been afraid today. ✨ Mark Helprin (2005). A Soldier of the Great War, p.197, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
He felt as if he were paying for the privilege of music with portions of his life and body. But it was well worth it. ✨ Mark Helprin (2017). Ellis Island and Other Stories, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Har … ▶
Such a thing as the child left alone to die in the hallway was unknown on the marsh. But here, in the dawn, was mortality itself. In the city were places to fall from which one could never emerge -- … ▶
Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.

...this marvelous graceful thing, this joy of physics, this perfect balance between rebellion and obedience, is God's own signature on earth. ✨ Mark Helprin (1983). Winter's Tale, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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