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Mark Helprin
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 28
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New York City
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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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I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and it didn't get him anything other than a living
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To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been.
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