"Behind every mystery lies another mystery."
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"[I think the most about] women. They are a complete mystery."
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"Yet mystery and reality emerge from the same source."
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"When I can't immediately define the character, and there's an element of mystery to it and still a lot to be explored, that's when I say yes."
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"We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover "the secret of God" that our difficulties disappear."
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"Mystery is truth's dancing partner."
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"We are born in mystery, we live in mystery, and we die in mystery."
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"People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it."
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"she's never forgotten, either, how a mystery caught in the hand could lose its grace"
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"Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health."
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"There is salvation - happiness and virtue - in beauty. I would define beauty in this context as a kind of richness, complexity, mystery, diversity, otherness, and unexpectedness - something that comes from the outside."
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"We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance"
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"There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid."
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"I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it."
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"I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion."
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"Why are there not positive mysteries? It's always who stole the diamond, or who killed the butler? How about... who made cookies, somebody cleaned my room."
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"I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth."
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"You accept things as they are, not as you wish they were in this moment...The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called the present."
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"We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure."
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"That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant."
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