"Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction."
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"Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity."
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"In a pure society, the subject of marriage would not be so often avoided,--from shame and not from reverence, winked out of sight,and hinted at only; but treated naturally and simply,--perhaps simply avoided like the kindred mysteries. If it cannot be spoken of for shame, how can it be acted of? But, doubtless, there is far more purity, as well as more impurity, than is apparent."
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"In religion, you're supposed to be somehow in touch with something deep and full of mysteries."
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"If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all."
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"There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others."
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"It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge."
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"I never get used to it, the unknowable mystery of a person so suddenly, totally closed, snapped shut like a half-read novel."
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"The easiest way to solve a mystery is to decide that there is no mystery to solve."
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"We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved."
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"How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery."
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"Is there any mystery like who you finally turn out to be."
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"The appeal of writing is primarily the investigation of mystery."
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"We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life."
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"Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science."
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"It is the most ungodly and dangerous business to abandon the certain and revealed will of God in order to search in to the hidden mysteries of God."
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"And in their rush to create wonders, they have ignored the wonders all around them, ignored the mysteries, the beauty."
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"Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion."
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"...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill."
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"A little mystery is not such a bad thing."
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