"If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it....for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery."
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"I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually."
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"The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing."
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"It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger."
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"The mystery of the universe is not time but size."
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"Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret."
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"But leave us some magic in the world. Leave us some mystery to enjoy."
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"Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious."
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"Avoid all mystery. There is no mystery in religion."
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"When we come to nonattachment, then we can understand the marvelous mystery of the universe: how it is intense activity and at the same time intense peace, how it is work every moment and rest every moment."
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"Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics."
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"There is no Mystery so great as Misery."
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"MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery? LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last. LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm."
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"Because there are mysteries. Because there are things that people are forbidden to speak about. Because there are things they do not remember."
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"I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen."
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"Mysteries are due to secrecy."
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"The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration."
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"I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact."
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"Awful Night! Ancestral mystery of mysteries."
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"The mystery of one man is too immense and too profound to be explained by another man."
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