Mark Helprin Quotes

• As long as you have life and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you have stopped believing. Believe for the sake of the dead, for love, to keep your heart beating, believe. Never give up, never despair, let no mystery confound you into the conclusion that mystery cannot be yours.

  Mark Helprin

  Renunciar, Creer, Corazón

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• Se movía como un bailarín, lo cual no es sorprendente; un caballo es un animal hermoso, pero quizá lo más notable sea que se mueve como si siempre oyera música.

  Mark Helprin

  Beautiful, Horse, Truth

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Words were all he knew; they possessed and overwhelmed him, as if they were a thousand white cats with whom he shared a one-room apartment.

  Mark Helprin

  Cat, White, Rooms

  Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books

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• To see the beauty of the world is to put your hands on lines that run uninterrupted through life and through death. Touching them is an act of hope, for perhaps someone on the other side, if there is another side, is touching them, too.

  Mark Helprin

  Running, Hands, Touching

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• Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

  Mark Helprin

  Expression, Silence, Time Management

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• Justice can sleep for years and awaken when it is least expected. A miracle is nothing more than dormant justice from another time arriving to compensate those it has cruelly abandoned. Whoever knows this is willing to suffer, for he knows that nothing is in vain.

  Mark Helprin

  Life, Sleep, Years

  Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books

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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

  Beautiful, Art, Memories

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

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• And how does God speak to you?" "In the language of everything that is beautiful.

  Mark Helprin

  Beautiful, Doe, Language

  Mark Helprin (2005). “A Soldier of the Great War”, p.423, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking, without the need to look back. No shock, no drama, just the lifting of a plank or two in a simple wooden gate in a clearing. Neither pain, nor floods of light, nor great voices, but just the silent crossing of a meadow.

  Mark Helprin

  Death, Prayer, Pain

  Mark Helprin (1991). “A Soldier of the Great War”, Harcourt

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• The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.

  Mark Helprin

  Book, Soul, Mules

  Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books

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• You’ll join me sooner than you know in a place with . . . no illusions, where the truth is the only architecture, the only color, the only sound--where that which we sense merely on occasion, and which takes us up and gives us the rare and beautiful glimpses of the things we truly love, flows in deep rivers and tumbles about like clouds in the sky.

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  Beautiful, Clouds, Color

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• And if you were a spirit, and time did not bind you, and patience and love were all you knew, then there you would wait for someone to return, and the story to unfold.

  Mark Helprin

  Waiting, And Love, Stories

  Mark Helprin (2012). “In Sunlight and in Shadow”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance.

  Mark Helprin

  Stars, Way, Resistance

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.577, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter and love.

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  Laughter, And Love, Movement

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.

  Mark Helprin

  Music, Love Is, Thinking

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• One thing you will discover is that life is based less than you think on what you’ve learned and much more than you think on what you have inside you from the beginning." Memoir From Antproof Case

  Mark Helprin

  Thinking, Life Is, Cases

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• and even when I was broken the way sometimes one can be broken, and even though I had fallen, I found upon arising that I was stronger than before, that the glories, if I may call them that, which I had loved so much and that had been darkened in my fall, were shinning even brighter and nearly everytime subsequently I have fallen and darkness has come over me, they have obstinately arisen, not as they were, but brighter.

  Mark Helprin

  Fall, Broken, Darkness

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• To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been.

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  Sadness, Mad, Joy

  Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books

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• We launch our souls from the cannons of art and discipline, and on any one night, hovering over the chimney tops of Europe, halfway to the stars, there are armies of brightly spinning spirits that have risen like fireworks, tethered to the souls of those men and women who, by reflection, mortification, and devotion, effortlessly outdazzle kings.

  Mark Helprin

  Art, Kings, Stars

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• Hay una expresión en yiddish que es "der gelernte naar" - un "tonto erudito". Puedes saber mucho, puedes tener un doctorado, y aun así ser un completo idiota.

  Mark Helprin

  Expression, Fool, Idiot

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• There's something about rushing water that I can watch for hours and feel as if I need to do nothing more. It's alive in a way that's greater than any description of it.

  Mark Helprin

  Rushing, Water, Watches

  Mark Helprin (2012). “In Sunlight and in Shadow”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Eso es lo que hace siempre la izquierda. Tienen un ideal y quieren que la gente se ajuste a él. Cuando las personas no se ajustan a él, acaban siendo golpeadas para que encajen en el molde. Y a veces les pegan tan fuerte que si no encajan, los matan. Eso es lo que ocurrió en la Unión Soviética y en China.

  Mark Helprin

  People, Unions, Want

  Fuente: americasfuture.org

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• How the holy and the profane mix in the light of day and at the end of life is sometimes the most beautiful thing in this world and a compassionate entry into the next. After failure and defeat, a concentration upon certain beauties, though forever lost and unretrievable, can lift the wounded past roundedness and the dying past dying, protecting them with an image, still and bright, that will ride with them on their long ride, never to fade and never to retreat.

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  Beautiful, Past, Light

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• It was a good speech, but the reaction was due to the fact that politics are madness, and even if one does not know it, a country in electoral season experiences flares of lunacy like the great storms that sometimes march across the golden surface of the sun.

  Mark Helprin

  Country, Storm, Speech

  Mark Helprin (2005). “Freddy and Fredericka”, p.313, Penguin

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• Peter Lake had no illusions about mortality. He knew that it made everyone perfectly equal, and that the treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter, and love. The wealthy could not buy these things. On the contrary, they were for the taking.

  Mark Helprin

  Love, Laughter, Lakes

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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