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Mark Helprin - In Sunlight and in Shadow (2012)

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How far do you have to go before you forgive yourself for how you were born?

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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.

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It's a defining difference, curiosity. I've never known a stupid person who was curious, or a curious person who was stupid.

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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.

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Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before.
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Mark Helprin

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Born: June 28, 1947 (age 78)
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