Mark Helprin - Justice Quotes

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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.

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Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.

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For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone.

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All rivers run full to the sea; those who are apart are brought together; the lost ones are redeemed; the dead come back to life; the perfectly blue days that have begun and ended in golden dimness continue, immobile and accessible; and, when all is perceived in such a way as to obviate time, justice becomes apparent not as something that will be, but something that is.

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There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery.

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