"All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage."
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"The past is history; The future is a mystery; This moment is a gift; That is why this moment is called the present; Enjoy it."
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"Nature conceals her mystery by her essential grandeur."
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"Many seek and never see, anyone can tell them why. O they weep and O they cry and never take until they try unless they try it in their sleep and never some until they die. I ask many, they ask me. This is a great mystery."
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"All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished."
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"You have your own perceptions as an artist because you're put on this planet to create mystery, but you're put here to unravel mysteries too."
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"When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey."
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"There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror."
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"I read a lot on autism, which is surprisingly and annoyingly a huge mystery."
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"Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery here we stand."
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"I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor."
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"The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor."
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"In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly."
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"The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation. They have to be endlessly explained by the commentaries of individual lives, and they gain an added mystery in each new revelation."
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"Life's something we already understand. Death is a mystery."
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"A day is a miniature eternity."
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"[This legendary Amazonian substance is] a cybernetic transdimentional medium of some sort that is generated out of the mysteries of the physiology of the human body."
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"There is no escape from mystery. It is the character of our being."
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"The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike."
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"More immediately, by waxing soulful you will have granted yourself the possibility of ecstatic participation in what the ancients considered a divinely animated universe. And on a day to day basis, folks, it doesn't get any better than that."
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