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A superior atmosphere exists, in which we all know each other; and there is a mysterious truth – dee...

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Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we o...

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Max PlanckWhere is Science Going?

Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence—love of ...

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Max PlanckWhere is Science Going?

All my ways of being are musical and mysterious.Yet I embrace you openly.Ripe with expectancy.

(From the Author Note at the beginning of the book.) Dorothy L. Sayers used to say that mystery stor...

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For the first time in a very many years, he felt the old vexation, the mingled impatience and pleasu...

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Bina, thank you. Bina, listen, this guy. His name wasn't Lasker. This guy-'She puts a hand to his mo...

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Michael ChabonThe Yiddish Policemen's Union

When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is ...

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Milan KunderaThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting

The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers...

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There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

Death is really the mystery of life, isn't it?

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Nadine GordimerThe Quotable Gordimer; or

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in soc...

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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. I...

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Ah,steeds,steeds,what is steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, a...

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A mystery of the universe is how it has managed to survive with so much volunteer help.

There was the door to which I found no key There was the veil through which 1 might not see.

What is the meaning of it all, of this...of this world?'Mystery', I heard in my thoughts, or perhaps...

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The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compass...

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What we essentially want is to draw something unknown to us in all its shadowiness, not something we...

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...every life is like a snowflake: individual existences might look identical from afar, but to unde...

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The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

Oh, I can't explain. When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like sur...

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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal. But t...

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There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

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Oscar WildeThe Happy Prince

Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.

…It was embarrassing now to recall with what little regret he had let slip his pleasures and preoccu...

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Before he turned again the to the car his eye was caught by a small clump of unknown flowers. The pa...

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P. D. JamesThe Black Tower

Por que en las epocas oscurasse escribe con tinta invisible?Why in the darkest agesdo they write wit...

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Death is the midwife of very great things.... It brings about the birth and rebirth of forms a thous...

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ParacelsusThe Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science

I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked ...

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In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant. And even ...

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Paul AusterThe New York Trilogy

I want to know the age. The sex. Most of all, the fingerprints. I'd like to identify who it is. Aft...

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Paul TherouxA Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta

The people through which the Tradition of the Sun spoke were people just like anyone else, and who, ...

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People give flowers as presents because flowers contain the true meaning of love. Anyone tries to po...

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The mature fruit of mystagogy is an awareness that one's life is being progressively transformed by ...

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The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life ...

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No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world with...

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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Dr...

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Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmon...

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Look at it this way, child, life is a magic show, or should be if people didn't go to sleep on each ...

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Ray BradburyBradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales

A wedge of sunlight slipped over the edge of the desk and fell noiselessly to the carpet.

It's goddamned funny in this police racket how an old woman can look out of a window and see a guy r...

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I'm killing time and it's dying hard.

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Raymond ChandlerThe Long Goodbye

Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.

Just read The Virtue of Minding Your Own Business. Oh my, what currents run deep! Beautifully seen, ...

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I would appreciate it if they would call a halt on all their devoted efforts to find a way to abolis...

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Wolfe still paid no attention to me. As a matter of fact, I didn't expect him to, since he was busy ...

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Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie...

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Rex StoutThe Silent Speaker

How shall I typify what happened? Passion play? Somewhat. Weird tale? Indubitably. Horror story? Pre...

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Richard MathesonNow You See It . . .

One learns one’s mystery at the price of one’s innocence.

There are considerable mysteries surrounding the strange values that Nature's actual particles have ...

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Roger PenroseThe Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe

Esoteric or inner knowledge is no different from other kinds of human knowledge and ability. It is a...

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Ultima came to stay with us the summer I was almost seven. When she came the beauty of the llano unf...

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People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery...

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Sam HarrisThe End of Faith: Religion

The same as a cigarette?" asked Rita excitedly, as Mrs. Sin bent over her."The same, but very, very ...

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I've never been this dirty. I've never been this sweaty and disgusting. I've never been this afraid,...

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My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long...

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Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties ...

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Stefan ZweigThe Burning Secret and other stories

Women. They are a complete mystery.

It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it'...

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We're not quite ending where we began, but close enough.Close enough.

When you’retwenty-one, life is a roadmap.It’s only when you get to betwenty-five or so that youbegin...

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She looked beautiful,standing there barefoot in her faded jeans. I wanted to take her in my arms, an...

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But sooner or later the last good time would come around. It does for all of us.

Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because there's no place like Dome.

I was sitting at the bar of the Hegira that night when Ginny came in. The barkeep, an ancient sad-ey...

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Stephen R. DonaldsonThe Man Who Killed His Brother

It's always seemed like a big mystery how nature, seemingly so effortlessly, manages to produce so m...

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The nature of conspiracy, which among those who both feared and named it, seemed to always possess a...

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Little girls think it's necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it'...

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I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides...

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For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of ...

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I also had a dim idea that if I walked the streets of New York by myself all night something of the ...

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So I find words I never thought to speakIn streets I never thought I should revisitWhen I left my bo...

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It is a mystery,' said Detritus.Vimes grinned mirthlessly. It was a mystery. And he didn't like myst...

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Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the gr...

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Veiling truth in mystery.

He's not a safe safe or a tame God, securely lodged behind the bars of a distant Heaven; He has the ...

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It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed

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Thomas MooreCare of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life

You felt she'd done a thousand secret things to her eyes. They needed no haze of cigarette smoke to ...

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But truly it was not the money that mattered. It was the distant glitter of everything that was poss...

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God puzzled her and she was too ashamed of Him to say so.

Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. So...

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Truman CapoteMusic for Chameleons

...when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference betwe...

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Tyler PerryDon't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life

I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these ...

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The Templars' mental confusion makes them indecipherable. That's why so many people venerate them.

Monsieur Bienvenu was simply a man who accepted these mysterious questions...and who had in his soul...

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And the supreme mystery was simply this: here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, ...

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There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and the...

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Walter MosleyAll I Did Was Shoot My Man

I don’t give a fuck what you’re trying to do or what you want. I’d send your ass away if you were a ...

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Walter MosleyAll I Did Was Shoot My Man

The girl was cinnamon colored in the way of Native America after it had been raped by Europe.

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Walter MosleyAll I Did Was Shoot My Man

I wondered if I could just drop the role I carried like a mantle of a dethroned prince.

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Walter MosleyAll I Did Was Shoot My Man

Kit [Carson Kitteridge] watched me for a few moments before saying, "That was some impressive killin...

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Walter MosleyAll I Did Was Shoot My Man

It was this mystery, bereft now of all fear, and this beauty together that made life the endless, ch...

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