"There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything."
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"It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself."
"Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing."
"I am crazy about mysterious things."
"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."
"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."
"It's impressive when you're such a mysterious fictional character that even avid enthusiasts are debating your existence within the mythos."
"Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious."
"There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something can be returned."
"one of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind's imagining into another"
"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."
"Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind."
"Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time."
"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."
"The East is very mysterious to Westerners. Even post-Cold War, it's still an unknown entity."
"Rihanna is mysterious and fascinating"
"We have come to see how great is the unexplored."
"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"
"More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life."
"In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul."