"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."

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

Mark Helprin

#Beautiful Quotes #Art Quotes #Memories Quotes

“The best form in which to worship God is every form.”
“"Comply" is not a vision.”
“Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.”
“I'd like to go the Cher route and act and sing and write and have a TV show and do it all.”
“You can rely on your team to do their jobs, but you have to carry the torch and do anything you need to, not just to shoot and finish, but to get the film seen. You have to know within yourself that you're going to have to take this. Don't sit back and think other people in your team are going to make it happen now because you've done your part. You have to carry that torch, and no one is going to care as much as you do, and nobody is going to live with it as long as you are because it's your film.”
“To build public support for what they're doing, scientists are always going to say there is the prospect to cure all these horrible diseases, but they're cautious for the most part in saying when those cures will arrive.”

Source : "Has stem cell research been over-hyped?" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2005.
“I was always much too elated to imagine despair.”

Source : Eve Babitz (1993). “Black Swans: Stories”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
“The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of "loyalty" and "duty". Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute, get out of there fast! You may possibly save yourself, but it is too late to save that society. It is doomed.”

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