Mark Helprin - Memoir From Antproof Case (1995)

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The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them, like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.

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We are all perfect clocks that the Divinity has set to ticking when, even before birth, the heart explodes into its lifelong dance.

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The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.

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I returned to walking up the mountain, and there, in the dim asexual beauty of reddening dawns and skies that firmed to blue, I discovered my real and appropriate strengths.

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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.

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When faced with something I fear, I tend to eat spaghetti.

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Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to compensate for a loss, to bring about a balance, to create amends, to make things right.

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