“I believe that Israel is very likely not to survive, it's not going to last forever, and now there's nothing that someone like me can do about it, in that it's a threat of nuclear or biological or chemical attack.” BelieveLastsI BelieveCan DoForeverThreatIsraelNuclearLike MeChemicals Author:Mark Helprin
“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.” IfsWould BeForeverChangedFoolMovedStolen Book:A Soldier of the Great War Source: A Soldier of the Great War
“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.” WorldWantLooksArtRealFeelingsBeautifulMemoriesForeverSceneConnectionsOutsidersLive In The PresentEntiretyLucidity Book:Ellis Island and Other Stories Source: Ellis Island and Other Stories
“She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after winter. Peter Lake was at her side and it ruined him forever. It broke him as he had not ever imagined he could have been broken. He would never again be young, or able to remember what it was like to be young. What he had once taken to be pleasures would appear to him in his defeat as hideous and deserved punishments for reckless vanity.” WorldHas BeensAbleRememberYoungSidesPleasureForeverTakenSkyBrokenDiedLaysWinterDefeatPunishmentVanityBrokeLakesMarchGrayPeterDefeatedRuinedCould Have BeenRecklessCrowHideousBe YoungWindyGray Days Book:Winter's Tale Source: Winter's Tale
“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.” WorldLongStillsEndsSometimesLightPastBeautifulLife IsCertainNextLostForeverDyingThis WorldHolyDefeatLiftsConcentrationCompassionateFadesBeautiful ThingsWoundedRetreatEntryEnd Of LifeProfane Author:Mark Helprin
