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Beautiful Quotes by Mark Helprin
- 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…
- He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as…
- Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars to sparkle violently…
- You’ll join me sooner than you know in a place with . . . no illusions, where the truth is the only architecture, the only…
- He knew very well that love could be like the most beautiful singing, that it could make death inconsequential, that it existed in forms so…
- Then the bow orchestra began to play an apocalyptically beautiful canon, one of those pieces in which, surely, the composer simply transcribed what was given,…
- 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…
- For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone.
- They were dancing around the fountain, arm in arm, in an old Dutch dance, their cheeks touching, their hands entwined. They had no music; they…
- And how does God speak to you?" "In the language of everything that is beautiful.
- And they'll vote for me because I'm the best liar, because I do it honestly, with a certain finesse. They know that lies and truth…
- And there was no reason for them to be dancing the Peter Lake could see, except that it was an exceptionally beautiful night.
More Beautiful Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
- People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. — David Attenborough
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. — John James Audubon
- I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of… — Saint Augustine
- Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for… — Marcus Aurelius
- Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot… — Paul Auster
- Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. — Diane Ackerman
- It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman