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Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet
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"How mysterious it is, to be in love. For you can be in love with one who knows nothing of you. Perhpas our greatest happinesses spring from such longings-being in love with one who is oblivious of you."

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Muhammad Iqbal Poet, Philosopher
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"It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal."

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Hermann Hesse Novelist, Poet
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"That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony."

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"It's not surprising to me that books ended up playing a central role in my life, but it is somewhat mysterious that poetry did."

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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist
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"Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else"

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