"The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation."
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"It is not given to princes, statesmen and captains to pierce the mysteries of the future, and even the most penetrating gaze reaches only conclusions which, however seemingly vindicated at a given moment, are inexorably effaced by time."
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"But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where."
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"The infinite being has assumed unto himself the mystery of finitude. And in him who is love the finite and the infinite are made one."
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"Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one."
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"We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension of all art."
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"Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers."
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"The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself."
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"Love's nationality is separate from all other religions, The lover's religion and nationality is the Beloved (God). The lover's cause is separate from all other causes Love is the astrolabe of God's mysteries."
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"We're quite happy with our Big Bang description of cosmic origins. But actually, the Big Bang accounts for what happened only after the beginning. The beginning itself, and especially what happened before, remains the biggest mystery of all."
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"No man is a complete mystery except to himself."
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"And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught."
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"I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification."
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"What I've done in the past is history and what I'm gonna do in the future is a mystery"
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"My chief reason for choosing Christianity was because the mysteries were incomprehensible. What's the point of revelation if we could figure it out ourselves? If it were wholly comprehensible, then it would just be another philosophy."
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"Eve is a twofold mystery."
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"He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace."
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"It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes"
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"The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable."
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"Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery."
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